Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value.

For Thursday's flight, major test objectives included restarting a Raptor engine in space and the deployment of 10 dummy Starlink mockups to test a new satellite delivery system that works a bit like ...

Credit: NASA/Jason Parrish Ending the Space Launch System’s decades-long drain on the United States’ limited spaceflight budget should be a high priority during the transition from President ...

India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its ...

Astronauts launched by NASA's Space Launch System rocket then will rendezvous with the Starship in lunar orbit and then descend to the surface. NASA's contract requires one unpiloted lunar landing ...

NASA's giant Space Launch System rocket had a successful debut in 2022, as did the Vulcan rocket last year from United Launch Alliance, Boeing and Lockheed Martin's joint launch venture.

At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds ...

ORLANDO, Florida—The U.S. Space Force anticipates launches from its two continental spaceports to increase by 25% to 30% over ...

The Artemis system consists of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft. The Artemis effort is already wildly overbudget with spending on the program projected to reach $93 ...

the Space Launch System. These heavy-lift vehicles have roughly the size and heft of NASA's Saturn V — the rocket that launched Apollo astronauts to the moon — but they're designed for even ...

Astronauts launched by NASA's Space Launch System rocket then will rendezvous with the Starship in lunar orbit and then descend to the surface. NASA's contract requires one unpiloted lunar landing ...