On October 24, 1946, the V2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach outer space, reaching an altitude of about 65 miles. Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth.

NASA is launching three sounding rockets April 8 during the solar eclipse to study how the sudden drop in sunlight affects ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on Saturday night.

Besides the telescope, SpaceX's Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force ... their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere ...

The X-37B spacecraft’s latest mission was shorter than the last but tried several new maneuvers and approaches during its time in outer space ... SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to go a farther ...

Originally set to launch Monday, the SpaceX rocket carrying ... said in a news briefing. The space observatory's advanced spectrometers will allow researchers to split infrared light from stars ...

A SpaceX rocket has blasted off to rescue ... The Crew-9 mission, which has a separate Dragon spacecraft already docked to the space station, will then undock from the orbiting laboratory and ...

YEKATERINBURG, July 10. /TASS/. A space rocket center for sending tourists into outer space can be built in Russia already in five years, the Urals-based Automatics Research and Production ...

The Obama administration has accurately described outer ... in space bigger than a softball, including the upper stages of launch vehicles, disabled spacecraft, dead batteries, solid rocket ...

The stars will blast off on the short trip to space this spring. Singer Katy Perry is scheduled to blast off on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket ... and outer space, is 62 ...

Atlantisch Perspectief, Vol. 44, No. 4, Special Edition: Uncovering an unseen nemesis (2020), pp. 46-50 (5 pages) The Outer Space Treaty is the ‘Magna Carta’ of international space law. It details the ...