KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

While 2025 saw a record number of launches —including crewed exploration, science missions, and even an historic first ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

The rocket engines that powered earlier missions couldn’t meet the demands of modern spaceflight. Failures, near-misses, and structural fatigue pushed NASA toward a complete redesign. Reinventing the ...

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft successfully launched this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev ...

Imagine this scenario: you have an important space telescope that’s rapidly sinking in altitude, slated to crash down to Earth next year unless you can nudge it back up. Arizona-based private space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ company ...

Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, ...