SpaceX's Starship megarocket, the world's most powerful rocket, is officially on NASA's list for future launches.

British startup Magdrive claims it can help with both, via a new propulsion system for spacecraft that will launch into space for the first time later this year and will be fueled by solid metal.

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida after an unexpectedly long stay on the space station. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

A few weeks ago, a sticker affixed to the back of a Tesla went viral. It read, "I bought this before Elon went crazy." On Amazon, sellers have flooded the marketplace with variations on the theme, and ...

While the Crew-10 launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space ... booster came back to Port Canaveral and its parts are being investigated still at Cape Canaveral. “While it’s disappointing to lose a ...

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As SpaceX successfully demonstrated in 2017, it is possible to reuse one of their rockets — NASA had also previously reused space shuttles and solid rocket boosters (which landed in the sea ...

The countdown is well underway to launch NASA’s moon-bound Artemis I mission. NASA is preparing to launch SLS to orbit as soon as Monday, August 29. Once there, the Orion spacecraft hitching a ...

It retired the small rocket seen here in this 2022 file ... to fly them up to 20 missions with refurbishment of boosters done on the Space Coast between launches. While originally envisioned ...

Another billionaire has entered the rocket race. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has provided "substantial financial backing" and has become the CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, its outgoing ...

SpaceX is set to send up late Monday its first Falcon 9 from Florida's Space Coast since a fire destroyed a booster after it ... out in the aft end of the rocket," said Bill Gerstenmaier ...

NASA received the upper stage for the agency’s Artemis II Space Launch ... integration with SLS rocket elements atop mobile launcher 1. The rocket’s solid rocket booster segments are already ...