With its relatively long half-life of 432 years and more accessible production routes, americium-241 presents a compelling ...

Blue Origin announced the next six passengers who will soon board one of the company's spacecraft for a trip to the edge of space from West Texas.

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA ...

JACKSON – Staff, students, former students and parents came out to say goodbye to the Christa McAuliffe Middle School during a recent “Honoring McAuliffe” open house event. A ceremony was held where ...

Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.

If you are of a certain age, you probably recall where you were when you heard the news. That morning, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew ...

As Senate leaders push to bring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston, the Smithsonian says the actual cost may be far higher than expected.

Discover Dassault's VORTEX, a reusable spaceplane set to revolutionize space travel with versatile missions and advanced technology.

A solid rocket engine for NASA's Space Launch System rocket experienced an anomaly during a static fire test at the booster's Northrop Grumman facilities June 26.

The propellant packed inside the booster is also different, using a mix that Northrop packs inside its commercial rocket motors instead of the recipe used for the space shuttle.