Rocket maker Astra said in a blog post on Tuesday (Feb. 2) that, in the second-quarter, it will go public by merging with publicly traded Holicity.. Formed in 2016, Astra is working on sending its ...

After flying three missions into low-Earth orbit this year, Varda Space Industries appears to be making credible progress ...

By Johan Ahlander KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) -Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch ...

This rocket comes up and then a few seconds later, the sound hits you. It’s just this roar and rumble, and then it’s a ...

Update: The Terran 1 rocket was not launched on 8 March due to an issue involving the temperature of the fuel, and Relativity Space is expected to release a new launch date soon. The first 3D ...

American space companies are not the only ones busy designing new rockets that could take flight this year. Arianespace, headquartered in France, is readying a new booster named Ariane 6 for its ...

Going into Friday's test flight, ULA and the Space Force hoped to launch one or two more Vulcan rockets by the end of the year, both with US Space Force payloads.

Last month, an astronomer and space tracking expert made a bit of a splash when he predicted that a piece of an old SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left in space for the last seven years was going to ...

A Chinese rocket booster crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean Friday morning. Aerospace Corporation “Here we go again,” Muelhaupt said, calling China’s will-nilly re-entry policy out of this world.

The exhaust from a rocket launching into space does the same thing. The rocket has to go really fast because it needs to overcome the curvature of spacetime itself.

This is a tale of NASA's early years. The space agency was born on Oct. 1, 1958, a year after the Soviet Union -- America's Cold War nemesis -- had sent Sputnik, the first satellite, into orbit ...