When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case ...

It wants to land rockets there as part of a test of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard program, which involves shooting rockets into space loaded down with supplies to ship stuff around the planet faster.

That’s the pitch of Longshot Space, an Oakland-based company that’s constructing an enormous gun with the goal of shooting things into space ... of dollars on every rocket launch.

A startling picture shows scientists shooting lasers at the Milky Way. The four beams of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) are used to excite sodium atoms in the ...

(F. Millour/ESO via SWNS) By Dean Murray A startling picture shows scientists shooting lasers at the Milky Way. The four beams of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope ...