Firefly Aerospace will upgrade its Alpha launch vehicle, making changes intended to improve the reliability of a rocket that ...

Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...

In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test at Baikonur ended in a massive explosion that killed over a hundred people and was erased from public record. Decades later, declassified files and ...

Space insurance traces its roots to 1965, when Lloyd’s of London underwrote the first satellite policy for Intelsat I, known ...

SpaceX is now seeking FAA approval to add new trajectories as Starship strives to reach orbit. Under the plan, the rocket ...

In July 1969, the Soviet N-1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur in one of history’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions, just weeks before Apollo 11. From intelligence briefings and rushed launch ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

China's SpaceX rival, LandSpace, suffered a dramatic rocket failure during a reusability test, highlighting the risks in the global space race.

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as ...