Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing ...

The international space company Rocket Lab successfully launched its 21st Electron mission of the year Sunday, ending 2025 ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

President Trump just signed an executive order today reaffirming the U.S.’s commitment to landing astronauts on the moon by ...

The 18th Annual International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) is underway this week. Participating schools are tasked with building large rockets using solid, liquid or hybrid propulsion systems ...

An Indian rocket launched the record-breaking BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite to orbit on Tuesday night (Dec. 23). BlueBird 6 ...

The Hanbit-Nano rocket, developed by South Korean aerospace company Innospace, crashed shortly after lifting off from ...

A Japanese H3 rocket could not put a government-run QZS-5 navigation satellite into its intended orbit after engine trouble, ...

A Chinese reusable rocket that launched into space fell short of its mission to be recovered, marking the second such ...