Anyone up late for Valentine’s Day night could catch a rocket going off. SpaceX crews are preparing to launch a Falcon 9 ...

An overnight SpaceX launch planned for early Saturday will use a booster that’s already flown to space 25 times. A Falcon 9 ...

Musk wrote. The test wasn't a total botch, though. SpaceX managed to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught ...

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the ...

Some rocket launches have an added bonus: The SpaceX boosters return to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean or, occasionally, to the company's landing zone at Cape Canaveral. If a booster returns ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

Two O-rings in the right solid rocket booster failed on launch due to cold ... booster and essentially burned a hole in the external fuel tank, basically making the tank and its liquid fuel ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

Just minutes after the rocket launched, its booster made its planned return to the ground and after momentarily hovering over the launchpad, it was spectacularly caught between two giant ...

The 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust during liftoff, the agency says. Advertisement The timeline for the delay-plagued Artemis moon landing ...

What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage, the booster that supported the Starlink mission landed back on Earth, enabling the company to reuse it for another mission.