When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

Discover the largest man-made object in space, the International Space Station (ISS), which was built in pieces, launched, ...

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NASA is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one.

Historically, getting into space and sending heavy payloads across or out of the Solar System has relied on chemical rockets. They do the job, and very well, but they suffer from the fact that even ...

Starship is the centerpiece of Musk's vision of sending the first humans to Mars, and is also critical in NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon's surface for the first time in five decades.

The Falcon 9 rockets have played a pivotal role in SpaceX's journey in space exploration as a private space company. The two-stage, reusable Falcon 9 rockets are SpaceX's second rocket after the ...

For example, the Trump administration may seek to shut off dozens of science missions that are either already in space or in ...

Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around the world. The contracts under the ...

Christian Davenport, a staff writer for the Washington Post and author of the new book, “Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the ...