Long Beach, Calif.-headquartered launch service and space systems specialist Rocket Lab has awarded Bollinger Shipyards a ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

USSF-87, launching from SLC-41 in Florida, is flying the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) 7 and 8 ...

Measuring forces in the millions of newtons, like the 570,000 newtons thrust of jet engines or the staggering 33 million newtons generated by the Saturn V rocket, requires extraordinary precision ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical rockets have begun to reach their theoretical maximum efficiency, and ...

You've likely watched space shuttles launch using massive rockets, but how exactly do the rockets that are the backbone of space exploration work?

One might be inclined to think that rockets would launch straight upward, but they don't, they curve along the way, and here's the science behind that.

A rocket needs to overcome the force of gravity to leave Earth behind.

United Launch Alliance fired off a next-generation Vulcan rocket Friday in the second of two "certification" test flights needed before the new launcher can be used to carry high-priority national ...

How Do Rockets Work? All You Need To Know With the recent 80th anniversary of the first rocket sent to space, we consider the details of awe-inspiring rockets.