On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...

ATLANTIC, Va. -- Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA's strategy of using ...

UN peacekeeping force says two troops seriously injured; IDF says examination of rocket's trajectory 'clearly indicates' it ...

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Update: Firefly Aerospace scrubbed the launch attempt due to " a sensor reading that was out of range," according to an updated launch alert. A new target liftoff date has not yet been announced. A ...

China's most powerful private rocket Tianlong 3 failed shortly after launch, dealing a setback to its plans to compete with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Texas spaceflight company is planning a rocket launch today for the first time in nearly a year from California. And despite the ...