As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

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 ...

Two NASA rockets launched from Alaska on March 25, 2025, lit up the night sky with strange blue lights and white vapor trails to the backdrop of the Northern Lights. The spectacular display was ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

Two NASA sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks early Tuesday morning in a mission aimed at learning more about how the aurora affects the upper atmosphere.

In theory, NASA wants to send a rocket to Mars, drop a lander down to the surface, collect Perseverance's mailbag and tuck it aboard another, smaller rocket, then shoot that rocket up to orbit ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit created the Capillary Cup, a zero-gravity cup that floats in the air and allows him to drink without using a bag and straw, according to the Rochester Institute of ...

Isar Aerospace, based in Germany, is the first in a crop of new European rocket companies to attempt an orbital launch. If ...

Isar Aerospace will try again on March 30, weather permitting. The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace has scrubbed another ...

Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, carrying four first-time astronauts on Monday, March 31. And among the astronauts ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit created the Capillary Cup, a zero-gravity cup that floats in the air and allows him to drink without using a bag and straw, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology ...