Every rocket launch is different and it takes a lot of people and safety checks to ensure that a 5.75 million pound rocket can safely launch into space. Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut and ...

NASA is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one.

Rocket Lab is set to launch its Electron rocket on a hypersonic mission from the Wallops Flight Facility. Where in Virginia will liftoff be visible?

A returned astronaut had a surprise when she gazed out of a passenger plane window and saw a rocket she had recently ridden. NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the ...

Virginia celebrated the opening of its new launch pad last month at Wallops Island, which marks the state’s role in the aerospace industry. Gov. Glenn Youngkin attended the ceremony to cut the ...

NASA once planned to launch the largest rocket ever designed - not from land, but from underwater! The Sea Dragon, a declassified 1960s project, was a massive 500-foot-tall rocket designed to launch ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian aerospace company Avio have signed a €40 million contract to develop technologies for a reusable upper stage rocket, marking a significant step toward ...

A trio of space missions just launched, set to deepen our understanding of the sun's influence and protect Earth from the constant flow of solar activity ...

The Anyone But You star threw a space-themed party with pals Glen Powell , Lauren Sanchez , Wiz Khalifa, and Diplo in attendance.

Firefly Aerospace's seventh Alpha rocket exploded on Monday (Sept. 29) during preflight testing. The vehicle was destroyed, and Firefly is assessing the damage to its test stand.

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien world. These robotic explorers and the NASA science programs behind them are ...

All of this went well on the previous Starship test flight August 26, when SpaceX rebounded from four consecutive failures—three in flight and one on the ground. With the next Starship launch, ...