It was meant to be a routine rocket launch to ... take-off of the reliable Antares vehicle. On October 28, 2014, the press and curious onlookers gathered outside the NASA compound at the Wallops ...

NASA astronauts Scott Tingle and Mike Fincke ... as part of a deal after its 10-year run of launches atop Antares rockets ended with the Aug. 1 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia because of ...

Firefly Aerospace launched its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, but the mission failed to reach ...

The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA ... rockets with the fuel efficiency of electric propulsion, powered by a nuclear microreactor. Now, Exlabs-Antares partnership ...

The Eta Aquariids major Class I meteor shower can be seen just before dawn on May 4. In the Fluvanna area, the shower will produce about 10-30 meteors an hour. Unfortunately, the moon will be in its ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant ...

This month's full moon reaches peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. EDT (17:56 GMT) and is known as the 'Flower Moon' to some in ...

Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's ...

The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space capsule may be limited, as a White House budget proposal for the space agency aims to phase out the overbudget SLS after just two ...

NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket and capsule will be retired. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ...