A new record approaches: By September's end, 83 orbital rockets lifted off from Florida's Space Coast thus far this year. For perspective's sake, that sum has already blown past the former annual ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while remaining stable until intentionally ignited. Its power comes from an ...

The launch, scheduled for mid-October from the company's Texas launch site, would come less than 2 months after SpaceX conducted its most successful Starship test of the year. Prior to vehicle's 10th ...

SpaceX launched a rocket Wednesday morning that will send three missions into space. The Falcon 9 rocket carried two spacecraft for NASA and one for NOAA. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center went as ...

The booster stage for Firefly Aerospace’s next Alpha rocket was destroyed Monday in a fiery accident on the company’s vertical test stand in Central Texas. Engineers were testing the rocket before ...

SpaceX launched two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit this morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California's ...

NASA's IMAP mission and two other space weather probes took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket today (Sept. 24). SpaceX just sent three space weather probes to the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted ...

Crews in Texas are picking up the pieces after a rocket exploded during a pre-flight test. Firefly Aerospace said an explosion happened on its test stand in Briggs, Texas. The explosion, captured on ...

There are plenty of rivalries in the US launch industry. People who build big and brawny machines tend to have egos to match. And if you chat up the senior executives of these rocket companies offline ...

Rocket launches in California take place at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Depending on conditions, the spacecraft can be seen across Southern California and often even ...