Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX announced Monday that it plans to launch two paying customers around the moon in late 2018. How hard will that be to accomplish, exactly? Gravity makes it ...

This animation, which has the Sun to the left, shows J002E3 being captured into a chaotic orbit around the Earth. Paul Chodas and Ron Baalke. Interestingly, while the S-IVB from Apollo 12 was ...

In Washington, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is projecting a life-like, massive Saturn V rocket on the east side of the Washington Monument in a realistic depiction of the famous ...

This post-Saturn Nova would have been much larger than the vehicle that powered the Apollo program, with eight F-1 engines pushing the rocket up in the sky, and the spacecraft on top of it to its ...

At 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million ...

At 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million ...

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

Teams lift the first stage of the Apollo 10 Saturn V rocket by crane inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 3, 1968, in preparation ...

A veteran diver who was almost a passenger on the missing Titan submersible says equipment used to retrieve Apollo 11 rocket engines in 2013 should be used in rescue operations.

At 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million ...