On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

Dozens of startups working on data centers, mining and pharmaceuticals are hanging on Elon Musk's long-stalled megarocket.

SpaceX is in the process of preparing Starship Version 3 for its upcoming launch debut, which is currently slated for ...

NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of astronauts should something go wrong during launch — is the result of years ...

South Korean startup Innospace says it knows what went wrong on its first-ever orbital launch attempt. Innospace sent its Hanbit-Nano rocket skyward for the first time ever on Dec. 22, from the ...

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists and engineers across the country, including in Southern California's Mojave ...

If NASA’s colossal new moon rocket, slated to launch with astronauts for the first time as soon as Wednesday, explodes on the pad or breaks up as it accelerates through the atmosphere, the space ...

In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...