What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Five Southern California Girl Scouts are getting ready to soar. They weren't able to blast off into space -- but their science projects did! It's all part of the "Making Space ...
A U.S. defense project meant to track underground explosions just made a surprising discovery: it can also detect rockets falling from space. While studying shockwaves rippling through the atmosphere, ...
Liftoff is targeted for Thursday, Sept. 18 from the company's Launch Site One in rural West Texas. Blue Origin will provide a webcast of the launch beginning about 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled ...
The students traipsed down into the depths of the quarry on a frigid night in February 2020 to fire their liquid-fuelled rocket engine. It was an ambitious goal, less generously characterized as ...
The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster—17 successful missions this year, and counting—and is close to bringing ...
(This story has been updated with the latest target launch time information.) United Launch Alliance crews are now targeting 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 9, to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying ...