NASA's Artemis campaign ... lift off from the moon, rocket exhaust plumes will affect the top layer of lunar "soil," called regolith, on the moon. When the lander's engines ignite to decelerate ...

Their work was focused mostly on improving the field-reversed configuration (FRC), a magnetic confinement technique. As the researchers note, generating fusion reactions involves first generating ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit, according to a study soon to be published in the ...

Built with lightweight composite material, nozzle extensions will lower costs, improve performance, and accelerate rocket engine production CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE ...

Firefly will utilize its expertise in composite manufacturing and liquid rocket engines to rapidly design, build, and test a composite-based nozzle extension to validate the material. Once developed ...

Cape Canaveral: Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, NASA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral Thursday night's National Weather Service forecast calls for partly cloudy skies ...

The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines," according to NASA. The test ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...

Accompanying Perry and Sánchez into space was also journalist and Oprah bff Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, astronaut and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen ...

Rocket launches from Florida occur at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. Depending on weather, cloud cover ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, April 21, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the CRS-32 resupply mission. Original story ...