The Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, took flight during evening twilight, when light from ...

Blue Origin, David in this story, made big strides in an early morning rocket launch ... ship exploded and burned up in the atmosphere, apparently over Turks and Caicos. It is back to the drawing ...

Shortly after liftoff, the rocket's booster successfully returned to Earth as planned and was caught by two enormous mechanical arms, drawing cheers ... we did lose the ship.

(This story has been updated to include SpaceX's newest launch ... That rocket will deploy 21 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit, then attempt to land atop a drone ship in the Atlantic ...

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

It made the company the first to successfully reach orbit on its first launch of an orbital-class rocket. The un-manned New Glenn rocket ship is designed to carry objects, such as satellites ...

The launch however was not without some success. Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at ...

(This story has been updated to include SpaceX's latest Tuesday evening launch target times.) The fog was so thick that the shrouded rocket was ... atop the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the ...

dock and autonomously refuel the moon-bound ship so it can blast out of Earth orbit and head for deep space. Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then ...