The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a ...

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

Standing no more than about 70 feet tall, sounding rockets are much smaller than an average spacecraft that may launch on an orbital flight from major spaceports For comparison, SpaceX's famous ...

States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

NASA is preparing to launch three sounding rockets as part of its Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus, or TOMEX+, with a launch window opening at 10 p.m. on Aug. 25 from the Wallops Flight ...

UPDATE: 3 NASA rockets scheduled to streak through the sky Tuesday night, visible from N.J. NASA’s launch of three rockets, including two with colorful vapor trails, could be visible across multiple ...

NASA is set to launch three small rockets into the upper atmosphere late Monday, and some people on the East Coast may be able to see colorful vapor trails that will be released shortly after liftoff.

Residents in parts of central and eastern Pennsylvania will get an opportunity on Wednesday night to catch a peek at the vapors from several rockets launching from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight ...