On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to achieving that dream.

Germany-based Isar Aerospace was targeting no earlier than Monday, March 24, for the maiden voyage of its brand new Spectrum ...

Bleecker Street Research warned this morning that Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket may not achieve its mid-2025 launch-date target. Bleecker warns that a mid-2026 or even mid-2027 launch is more likely.

Rocket Lab reported earnings last week, but that's not all the news it shared. It's also planning a floating landing pad, and it has invented a flatter satellite. It also doubled one launch ...

Rocket Cos. is pushing deeper into the property market with a deal to buy Redfin Corp. that values the real estate listing site at $1.75 billion. The Detroit-based financial technology group will ...

She’ll be on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket, according to the space ... became the first woman in space during her solo Vostok 6 mission on 16 June 1963.

SPACE X IS ABOUT TO SEND UP ANOTHER FALCON NINE ROCKET. THIS ONE WILL HAVE 21 STARLINK SATELLITES ON BOARD. SO WE HAVE SEEN MANY OF THESE LAUNCHES, AND THEY’RE BUILDING THIS NETWORK OF THESE ...

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test ...