Why it matters: Live Science reports that a team of undergraduate students just revolutionized amateur rocketry by launching their homemade rocket higher and faster than any non-professional ...

Five years ago, budding 11-year-old Seattle scientist Rebecca Yeung was launching a homemade spacecraft high above Earth. The exploits with her sister gained the pair widespread publicity and a ...

At an event in Nevada, hobbyists can legally send their homemade rockets high into the atmosphere. Grant Thompson, who has a YouTube DIY science channel, struggles under the weight of a rocket at ...