A new generation of space rockets is inching closer to launch. Private space company Astrobotic recently revealed it carried out a successful test of two of its rotating detonation rocket engines ...

Blue Origin launched the company's third New Glenn rocket on Sunday, re-flying and successfully recovering a previously used first stage. But the rocket's second stage put the payload, a ...

On Wednesday, four astronauts are scheduled to launch on a trip around the moon — the first such mission in more than 50 years. Images show NASA's long road to this point. For the first time in more ...

With an end-of-week green light from the FDA, Rocket Pharmaceuticals has officially broken into commercial orbit. Still, the company is taking a more measured approach for the launch of its new gene ...

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has achieved “first plasma” in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket, designed to propel rockets faster than any object has ever traveled. Reading time 2 minutes ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 2 mission stands at 322 feet tall. The SLS is NASA's most powerful rocket, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust. While massive, the SLS is ...

Mars Watch NASA's Curiosity rover 'struggle' to remove a rock that got stuck on its robotic arm for nearly a week Space Exploration A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon Space ...

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport ...

Robert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Esther Goddard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the ...

Rocket Lab launched a mystery satellite for a secretive private customer this evening (March 5). An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT; ...

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The upcoming test flight, dubbed "Stairway to Seven," is the seventh for the Alpha rocket. Following the mission, Firefly will debut a new, taller version of Alpha for flight 8. The company also ...