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 ...

In an unprecedented surge of space activity, six rockets lifted off from various global launch sites within a span of just 18 hours between April 28 and 29, 2025. This rapid-fire succession of ...

・Rocket Lab noted in November that it has had 18 Electron launches in 2025 with 100% mission success. ・In November, the company said that it had postponed the launch of its Neutron rocket into 2026.

"If you're flying rockets in space, and you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong," said the researcher who led the mission.

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 ...

NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder will launch a 60-foot rocket out of New Mexico on Friday, which, once launched, will reach the speed of sound within seconds and complete its scientific ...

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 ...

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit. The longtime director of this university ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore literal rocket science, this experiment is for you. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays when Meteorologist Sarah ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

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 ...