For most of the space age, rocket launches were rare. Their environmental impact was also negligible. A plume here, a plume ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore literal rocket science, this experiment is for you. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays when Meteorologist Sarah ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster—17 successful missions this year, and counting—and is close to bringing ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into space. (Jorge Villalba/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Moon is constantly accosted by impacts from the Universe at large. Later this year, our closest neighbor in ...

Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...

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 ...