As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each ...

Chinese aerospace company Orienspace is now two for two when it comes to launching the largest solid-propellant rocket in the ...

As spaceflight becomes increasingly routine, the environmental cost of reaching orbit is coming under scrutiny. A recent ...

PROMONTORY — Despite an explosion that led to the total loss of a building at the Northrop Grumman complex near Promontory last week, the company said work on solid rocket motor projects will not be ...

Starship’s latest flight was another big success. SpaceX carried out several in-flight demonstrations to prepare for the ...

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to Just4Kids, a new feature with content from The Conversation for Kids, a nonprofit in which scholars answer kids’ questions about science, health and more, that will be ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

NASA stacked the Artemis II Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center this week ahead of ...

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...