A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

Preservationists are asking neighbors to help choose names for the three endangered chicks that call Montrose Beach home.

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957.

A SPACE capsule carrying the remains of 166 people and a bounty of cannabis plants has been lost at sea following a surprise ...

[ CAKILE MARITIMA ] On the outer beach, where life is about as stable as driftwood, a few plants fight it out between opposing forces.

It was a tricky way to launch. The external pressure on the rocket’s base and engine were far greater than anything a rocket sitting on a launchpad at the Cape would be exposed too. At the moment of ...

It turns out that the rocket was a Sea Dragon, a real-world proposal of what would have been the mightiest launch vehicle ever built. The Sea Dragon never flew in real-life history.

Hundreds of technicians are busy preparing to launch a 20-story rocket from an ocean platform near the equator by Sea Launch, the rocket venture that’s fresh out of bankruptcy protection and has ...