Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted arrows, ...

For most of space history, rockets were one-way tickets. They blasted off, did their job, and then tumbled back to Earth as ...

How does the United States prepare a rocket for military and scientific missions? This documentary follows the Space Force ...

Rockets that are launching things into space, like satellites or space probes, don’t actually have much trouble getting past the Earth’s atmosphere. Rockets encounter most of the resistance when ...

SpaceX wants to put the two-stage rocket's massive booster through its paces. On Sunday, it postponed the launch "to ...