Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

NASA has confirmed that debris found on the ocean floor off Florida's Atlantic coast comes from the fallen space shuttle Challenger, which exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts ...

The ill-fated Challenger broke apart soon after liftoff in 1986. Now, a crew of divers has uncovered some more of its debris while searching for clues in another mystery.

LEVASSEUR: Well, NASA has in storage set aside down in Florida all of the pieces, all of the debris that's been recovered from both Challenger and Columbia. And so this is likely to join that.

Debris from the Challenger shuttle disaster which exploded two minutes after take-off and killed all seven crew members has been found off the Florida coast. The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded ...

Debris from the explosion rained down onto the Atlantic Ocean. The Challenger explosion. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Now, 36 years later, a large section of the Challenger has been found on the ...

A big piece of NASA's fallen space shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the ocean floor by a team searching for a downed WWII-era aircraft for The History Channel.

Explorers searching the Atlantic Ocean for lost World War II artifacts surprisingly uncovered a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the infamous 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The ...

Story at a glance Documentarians found a 20-foot piece of debris from the Challenger Space Shuttle off the coast of Florida. In 1986, the shuttle malfunctioned seconds after takeoff, killing all ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger is making its final journey this week as workers transport the debris recovered after the Jan. 28, 1986, accident to a storage site on the Canaveral Air Force Station ...

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseur about recently discovered debris from the Challenger space shuttle. Support for LAist comes from.