WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Some Hampton Roads residents might be able to catch a glimpse of a rocket launch early Thursday morning. According to the Wallops Flight Facility, a sounding rocket ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

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 ...

Two NASA rockets launched into auroras over Alaska last week to study the impact that these geomagnetic light shows have on Earth's upper atmosphere, and the results were gorgeous. The experiment, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An experiment created by a team of Community College of Allegheny County students is going to space. The experiment is set to launch Monday at 9:29 p.m. from Cape Canaveral on a ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of ...

The coming flight is not an isolated experiment but part of a coordinated effort to give China a domestic ecosystem of ...

Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11. The space agency blasted three sounding rockets above central and northern ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —An experiment by Purdue University professor Steven Collicott, Ph.D., ended with success aboard the first suborbital rocket research flight by private company Blue Origin.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University aeronautics and astronautics class successfully tested a zero-gravity flight experiment on Blue Origin’s latest suborbital rocket, New Shepard. Professor ...