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 ...

SpaceX Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station, setting the stage to rescue two stranded NASA ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

But it has the considerable disadvantage of requiring a lot of energy to escape Earth's gravity—it takes ... typically the heavier component of rocket fuel. And a variety of people have figured ...

because we can escape the Earth for a little bit," Williams said in an interview last month.Concerns over a critical hydraulic system arose less than four hours before the Falcon rocket's planned ...

After an initial postponement, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully launched on March 14, 2025, carrying a team of four ...

The milestone came five days after the Blue Ghost completed a maneuver, the trans lunar injection, meant to allow it to escape Earth's gravitational ... a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the lander ...

SpaceX's Starship is a powerful spacecraft and rocket system which consists of two stages. The Super Heavy Booster provides the thrust needed to escape Earth's gravity, while Starship is the ...

This primordial element was already known to exist inside Earth ... escape of helium during the measurement phase, Hirose said in a statement. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Last week, a Falcon 9 rocket launched nearly two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit ... it's hard to escape the possibility that some details are slipping through the cracks.