Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

In November 2022, a Chinese Long March 5B rocket reentered the atmosphere with no ability to control where it fell. As a ...

Welcome to Edition 6.07 of the Rocket Report! I spent a few days last week in southern New Mexico, visiting Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic’s facilities there. I felt a renewed sense of optimism ...

Archer already has an electric-powered, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the works. Flying at 150 mph, its 12 ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with developing ...

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s ( SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

The space exploration business is booming in our day and age, and that is owed, not it small part, to the countless startups that provide transportation to space for all those who need it. But whereas ...