A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months.

Donald Merry, who often watches the sunset from his balcony, noticed people pointing skyward at the unexpected sight.

When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case ...

The Falcon 9 rocket is designed to transport people and cargo into space and then safely reenter Earth’s atmosphere. However, at 4:46 a.m. local time Wednesday, the second stage of the rocket ...

The company's Athena lander is scheduled to launch toward the moon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday evening (Feb. 26).

Indeed, one of the big reasons that NASA originally chose Cape Canaveral on Florida’s east coast in the 1950s was that a rocket taking ... take advantage of the Earth’s rotation, allowing ...

There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. It’s about gravity – something all of us experience every moment of every day. Gravity is the force that pulls you toward the ...

It will shoot out four dummy satellites ... of the upper stage to survive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. The rocket stage will pivot to a vertical orientation ...

Payloads carrying cremated human remains, research technology for the nation’s spy satellite agency, and spacecraft to ...