Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is projected to be widely visible across the West Coast when it launches today from the Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Could three different rocket launches get off the ground in the week ahead from California? That's what's on the schedule as ...

In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...

The Cape Canaveral site is where John Glenn launched to orbit. Now it will host Stoke Space's Nova rocket; an effort toward ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

As the Falcon 9 climbed higher and sunlight hit the rocket’s exhaust plume in the pre-dawn sky, the illuminated gases spread outward, resembling a glowing jellyfish drifting through the sky.

A Japanese startup's third attempt to put a satellite in orbit failed on Thursday after its rocket spiraled back to Earth shortly after takeoff.