SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired ...
Assembly of the Artemis II moon rocket has reached its latest milestone with the stacking of the twin boosters' right forward ...
The satellite is safely on its way to geostationary orbit, but one of the rocket's four strap-on side boosters fell to Earth in a populated area of Zhenyuan County in Guizhou province. Security ...
The rocket's first stage is accompanied by four 7.4-foot-wide (2.25 meters) boosters. These often have residual propellant, which means the stages explode on impact with the ground, while ...
China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell shockingly close to a family home. The TJS-14 satellite launched on a Long March 3B ...
The boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis II Moon rocket and provide more than 75% of the total Space Launch ...
Some rocket launches have an added bonus: The SpaceX boosters return to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean or, occasionally, to the company's landing zone at Cape Canaveral. If a booster returns ...
A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster ...