A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, Mar. 13.

Isar Aerospace's first Spectrum rocket suffered an anomaly about 18 seconds into its first-ever launch and crashed. The rocket launched from Europe's Andøya Spaceport in Norway. Credit: Space.com | fo

For decades, the Soviet Union pretended it had never truly raced America to the Moon. The truth was buried in the wreckage of the N1 - a colossal 30-engine rocket built to rival the Saturn V and carry Soviet cosmonauts to the lunar surface.

A critical fire erupted this week at a SpaceX during testing in Texas.

SpaceX and NASA's Crew-10 mission took off in a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday, March 14

NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of astronauts should something go wrong during launch — is the result of years of work from scientists and engineers across the ...

Can rocket launch from NASA, Cape Canaveral be seen in Fort Myers, 245 miles away? Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and ULA Atlas V have liftoffs in April 2026.

Part of testing is pushing components way past their limits, so it's entirely possible that the team predicted a fiery end.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base has been delayed again due to technical issues.