The spectacle came after SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a failure during ascent, sending fragments into the atmosphere.

The moisture added by the rocket might form “noctilucent clouds,” which occur when moisture freezes onto small particulates of meteor smoke. They’re called “noctilucent clouds” because ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base’s public affairs team hit on the idea of taking the reenlistment photo during a rocket launch.

SpaceX's eighth flight test of its Starship spacecraft ended with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company said. Contact with the ship was lost about nine minutes after the launch.

"The light show was completely silent — we didn’t hear anything. But the reflection on the water from the burning debris was ...

Falling debris from a rocket launch streaked over the South Florida ... Linda Burt, a witness, said, “I thought it was a meteor. It’s pretty cool.” A giant orb jetted across the sky.

Considered one of the most lethal BVR missiles available today, Meteor is powered by a ramjet propulsion system, a solid fuel, variable flow, ducted rocket. A Meteor BVR air-to-air missile is ...

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