NASA elected to grab key components from the Redstone and Jupiter rockets, combining multiple fuel tank designs together to ...
A surge in global space launches in 2025 also brought a spike in failures, from SpaceX and Japan’s H3 to private rockets in ...
This year's sum of 109 launches shattered the short-lived annual record of 93 liftoffs set last year. That number was ...
Here's a brief rundown of 12 of 2025's most memorable mishaps. One caveat first, though: There is no shame in being on the ...
Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing ...
A full decade after SpaceX pioneered reusable rocketry with the first-ever successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, the rest of the world is finally catching up. These few successes aren’t based on ...
Live updates from the Starlink 6-88 mission, which launched 1:48 a.m. Jan. 4 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space ...
The rocket company founded a quarter-century ago by billionaire Jeff Bezos made history Thursday with the pinpoint landing of an 18-story-tall rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The ...
As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each launch is a triumph of human ingenuity, but behind that brilliance lies a ...
Space enthusiasts will have to wait awhile longer to see SpaceX attempt the 10th launch of its massive Starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built. The company had been targeting a one-hour ...
Fittingly, the first launch of the year will be SpaceX. The Falcon 9 is set to take off no earlier than the first hours of ...
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno admits the decision to build only Vulcan rockets at the world’s largest rocket factory in Decatur is a little “bittersweet.” That means saying goodbye to the ...