In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...

In the 2019-20 season, the Houston Rockets traded away starting center Clint Capela to create micro-ball and become the smallest team in the league. Now, for 2025-26, they’ve brought him back. This ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials for hypersonic vehicles. Their three-year research project combined ...

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 ...

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 ...

After nearly a year, the government has finalized the administrative procedures for developing a methane-based, reusable next ...

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 ...

Students watched the spacecraft carrying their experiment explode. — -- Four Tennessee students had the thrill of watching their science experiment being launched into space on board SpaceX's ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send another batch of Amazon's Monday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live — if you're a night owl or a very early riser. A ULA Atlas V rocket ...