NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

While 2025 saw a record number of launches —including crewed exploration, science missions, and even an historic first ...

Watching a rocket launch on the beach is a total “so Florida,” very Instagram-worthy thing to do. Though rockets here launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Merritt Island, Florida, or Cape ...

If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight, just wait until 2026. Here's a look at six missions that could define the year.

On August 26, SpaceX’s Starship rocket completed its tenth test flight. This time, the only explosions were planned. In the unforgiving realm of space exploration—three recent Starship tests had ended ...

A late-night weekend rocket launch in beautiful, breezy, springtime Florida? That's the (potential) plan! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit ...

Live updates from the Starlink 6-99 mission, which launched 8:42 a.m. Dec. 17 from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

In an effort to oust the Soviets in the space race, NASA’s Mariner I spacecraft was prepared to make history as the first spacecraft to complete a flyby survey of Venus. Then, on July 22, 1962, the ...