After making a successful reentry, the rocket's first stage booster appeared to lose an engine during its landing burn. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Rocket launches that once felt like rare spectacles are now routine enough to snarl the daily flow of commercial flights. As private companies scale up ambitious programs and test ever larger vehicles ...

A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this year, according to newly-released documents from the Federal Aviation ...

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...