Firefly Aerospace is returning its Alpha launch vehicle to flight after a nearly 10-month stand down following the failed FLTA006 “Message In A Booster” mission in April 2025. FLTA007 “Stairway to ...

Reports suggest that the US Space Force is pausing missions on the Vulcan rocket until an anomaly observed during a February ...

NASA is now targeting March 2026 for Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. It will set the stage for Artemis III’s planned moon landing in 2028.

The first crewed mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has gone before.

Soon, four astronauts will launch on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission, called Artemis II, is the second mission — and first crewed mission — of ...

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union launched its Saturn V rival, the N1, and watched it detonate in one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. Using declassified ...

SpaceX received a "finding of no significant impact" from the FAA for new Starship launch trajectories from its Texas Starbase, moving closer to a license modification for orbital flights over the U.S ...

The photo was captured on Feb. 11, as SpaceX's Crew-12 Dragon spacecraft "Freedom" and its Falcon 9 rocket (closest to the ...

The heavy version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket launched for the first time Thursday, hauling 32 spacecraft to low-Earth orbit for Amazon’s satellite broadband constellation. The Ariane 6 rocket lifted ...

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket is preparing for its fourth launch from Cape Canaveral, and its second national security mission for the U.S. Space Force. The upcoming mission will be the ...

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket is preparing for its fourth launch and second national security mission. The upcoming mission will carry the rocket's heaviest payload to date on its ...