2024 set spaceflight records for the fourth consecutive year with 259 launches worldwide and one launch attempt roughly every ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is flying two creatively named missions ... A second mission will fire rockets into the dark spots or “holes” in auroras to try and determine what cases ...

The rocket was supposed to launch vertically from a launch pad, head up into space, deliver its payload, and then return back to planet Earth to be used again. That's right, the Super Nexus was ...

In their study, the researchers used data on rocket junk re-entries and flights on the ... Getty Images Plus When space launches are used to ferry satellites up into orbit, spent rocket stages ...

In a statement, SpaceX said that Starship debris fell "into ... flying 10 "Starlink simulators" in the rocket's payload bay and planned to attempt to deploy the satellite-like objects once in space.

Two NASA rocket missions ... the space environment around our planet, which can affect both spacecraft and astronauts. The launch window for the missions — which will fly out of the Poker ...

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

The space industry started off 2025 with a bang. January brought the dual launch of lunar landers from the Texas-based ...

Now, it finally looks as if larger-scale passenger flights into space will soon become a reality ... a head for flights on SpaceShipTwo, a rocket-powered spaceship that will take six paying ...

Now, scientists have calculated the chance that falling rocket junk could enter the airspace, potentially striking an ...

Rockets are used to insert satellites into orbit ... safety issues by diverting flights, Boley added. Ensuring aviation safety in context of a potential space junk strike was not taken into ...