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 ...

Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...

A U.S. defense project meant to track underground explosions just made a surprising discovery: it can also detect rockets falling from space. While studying shockwaves rippling through the atmosphere, ...

Yale astrophysicist Marla Geha was visiting U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, appropriately enough, when she realized she needed to take her rocket science class global. Geha, a ...

The 27 broadband spacecraft lifted off today (June 23) at 6:54 a.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Amazon's second big batch ...

After a previous failed launch, members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project solids team harbored doubts as they arrived at the Mojave Desert testing site 13 months ago. Their new competition rocket had ...

Scrub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, April 9, weather-postponed liftoff attempt of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on the inaugural Amazon ...

Launch doubleheader recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Thursday, Sept. 25, back-to-back morning liftoffs of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.

Amazon is preparing to launch its debut batch of satellites into orbit as it seeks to establish its own internet service for customers worldwide. Project Kuiper, a subsidiary of billionaire Jeff Bezos ...