The power outage in the Santa Barbara region disrupted telecommunications at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center ...

What that means is that the cone at the rocket's top, essentially its payload fairing, featured a series of inlets for air to get in as the rocket ascended through the atmosphere. The stuff got ...

Artist's impressions of space junk and, inset, an airliner. dell640 / dottedhippo/iStock / Getty Images Plus. When space launches are used to ferry satellites up into orbit, spent rocket stages ...

By carrying six LAU-131 A/A rocket pods, the F-16 will be able to carry up to 42 AGR-20 Falco rockets, matching the F-15E’s ...

The police officials determined the hunk of metal was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, which is an unguided air-to-air rocket that is meant to carry a 1.5 kiloton W25 warhead dating back to the Cold War.

The US Air Force is investing in a transport system that could one day deliver 100 tonnes for cargo or personnel by rocket to any spot on Earth in under 90 minutes. Unimaginatively called Rocket ...

The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants to land rockets there as part of a test of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force is pressing forward with plans to demonstrate point-to-point rocket travel perhaps in a few years. Among the reasons for optimism are SpaceX’s launch rates ...