Getting to orbit used to mean building a rocket, launching it once, and watching it burn up or sink to the bottom of the ...

World Space Week 2026 explores how reusable rockets, new launch vehicles and commercial spaceflight are transforming access to space.

SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms. A jubilant Elon Musk called it ...

High school teams from California to Virginia are hard at work on plans for space travel, designing rockets they will build and launch toward the heavens next spring with the help of NASA’s Marshall ...

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and ...

The team at the Pawnee National Grasslands launch site. Blastoff! The rocket soared over the prairie, its unique engine screaming in unison with cheers from more than two dozen students. The months of ...