On October 13th, SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and its reusable booster Super Heavy launched from Boca Chica, Texas. In a world first, Super Heavy returned to the launch tower after separating from ...

BOOM! What was the earth-shaking, jolt-you-awake, set-off-the-car-alarm sound? Oh right, a rocket launch. But why are some rocket launches accompanied by sonic booms and others aren’t? Either way, ...

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An Ariane 5 carrying two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 39, built by Space Systems/Loral, and EDRS-C, built by OHB System, lifts off from its launchpad in Kourou, at the European Space Center ...

The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ...

Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II Aurora fires its engine during an all-up systems test in July. [Courtesy: Dawn Aerospace] A New Zealand company developing a supersonic, remotely operated, rocket-powered ...

Late-night rocket launch will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just before we fall back. Space Coast residents might wake up from a sonic boom.

TEL AVIV, IsraelTEL AVIV, Israel — Rocket sirens sound in Tel Aviv for the first time in months. Hamas says it fired a barrage from Gaza. Navy christens warship in name of former Camp Pendleton Marine ...