Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

The U.S. Space Force has added Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space and California-based Rocket Lab USA to the list of providers for its $5.6 billion round of national security launches. Each company ...

Cape Canaveral or surrounding areas from Florida's Space Coast, you can still see the NASA and SpaceX rocket launch liftoff − virtually (see below). USA TODAY Network Space Team launch coverage ...

NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...

Besides the telescope, SpaceX's Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force Base for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites ...

The SLS rocket core with its two side boosters. NASA NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier ...

Two NASA rockets launched from ... substorms and improve the forecasting of space weather. The first to launch was a 42-foot Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket launching late in the daily window ...