Early risers in Europe spotted luminous fireballs flying through the sky between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
Low clouds may have spoiled the view from the ground, but a Falcon 9 set a new record early Saturday as SpaceX pushes ...
There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.
NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the ... as part of two missions led by space physicists Marilia Samara and Robert Michell from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
There are presently two more powerful rockets in humanity's arsenal, the Space Launch System (SLS ... punching its massive body through the atmosphere as a quartet of nuclear engines pushes ...
Early risers in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe spotted luminous fireballs flying through the sky between 4:00 and ...
In the last 25 years, research using the ESA (European Space Agency ... where auroras shine most winter nights, flying a rocket through them is no small feat. Above terrestrial winds, the aurora ...
If you didn't see the light through the clouds, the only proof a rocket had launched was the low rumble heard throughout the Space Coast. This rocket was flying for the 26th time, as SpaceX ...
Chaikin relies on firsthand accounts through interviews with ... the long-term impacts of life in space. Robert Kurston reflects in his book, Rocket Men, on the astronauts who—against the ...
The reusability of different parts of a space rocket has ... the stated mission to make rockets that can be relaunched with the same cadence passenger aircraft flying today. It's an idea that ...
I have been a space enthusiast since early childhood. Dad was an aerospace engineer, and I have it on good authority that there was a model of a Saturn V rocket in my nursery. In the 1970s ...
The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program will test a nuclear-powered rocket in space as soon as 2027 ... high-assay low-enriched uranium-fueled, flow-through nuclear ...