Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Robert H. Goddard is often referred to as the "father of modern rocketry" for his pioneering research in liquid propulsion. On that fateful day in 1926, Goddard launched a small rocket that flew for ...

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Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

Two NASA sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks early Tuesday morning in a mission aimed ...

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Science News // 2 days ago Germany's Spectrum rocket launch scrubbed, to be rescheduled March 24 (UPI) -- The first-ever launch of the German Isar Aerospace company's Spectrum two-stage rocket was ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled ...