What do Ptolemy and ancient Chinese rockets have in common? Without either of these things, space flight wouldn't be possible ...

Red Star - While rockets had been proven to be indispensable to the Second World War, the idea to send people up into orbit ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rapid advancements in spaceflight occurred during the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Ballistic ...

For the average Earthling, touring space may still be the stuff of science fiction, but in 2000, Popular Science published a ...

On Oct. 13, 2024, Elon Musk and SpaceX Corporation made history by successfully launching and recovering the largest rocket ever made ... to the edge of space. Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launched on Oct. 14, 2024. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images) Throughout the history of the space program, going all the way ...

Colleen Anderson, space history curator at the Air and Space Museum, tells Smithsonian magazine that launch vehicles such as rocket boosters have historically been single-use, including those in ...

For the first time, a part of a space rocket has been successfully caught ... the missions said the achievement was a "day for the history books," as the booster landed safely.

SpaceX launched more of its internet-providing satellites into space on Saturday – and helped set a new record for the number ...

Deep Blue Aerospace is among a vanguard of Chinese commercial space firms developing rockets to power Beijing ... SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history as the first group of non-government ...