One might be inclined to think that rockets would launch straight upward, but they don't, they curve along the way, and ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket ... under high voltage, creating a magnetic field that expels the particles and provides thrust.

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks ...

Rocket Lab USA ... communications, propulsion, and attitude control for the mission. Inside the capsule Varda carries out in-space manufacturing and processing of pharmaceutical products that ...

It retired the small rocket seen here in this 2022 file photo in favor of a larger Terran R design that aims to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force ... million pounds of thrust on liftoff.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket ... but might trade thrust for specific impulse unless optimized carefully. Additional ...

designed to provide frequent flight and funding opportunities for space science missions — on its Falcon 9 rocket. It included a spacecraft from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada ...

"During the event, the FAA activated a Debris Response Area and briefly slowed aircraft outside the area where space ... of thrust — more than twice the power as NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket ...