It’s now the highest undergraduate-built liquid-fueled rocket ever flown, climbing 9 miles high at speeds reaching Mach 1.5. Reading time 3 minutes They call themselves the Cygnus Suborbitals, a team ...

A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of. The rocket only made it about ten feet off the ...

Click to open image viewer. This appears to be one of the first piston pumps tested by American rocket pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard in 1923 for his first experiments with liquid propellant rocket ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the WAC-Corporal liquid-fuel sounding rocket, the U.S.'s first successful sounding rocket. Developed from 1944 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it could lift 25 ...

Rocket launches face hidden challenges from cryogenic fuel leaks. Storing super-cold fuels like liquid hydrogen and oxygen at extreme temperatures creates engineering hurdles. Materials shrink, ...

NASA rocket launches have generated some of the most awe-inspiring footage ever captured on camera, thanks largely to the dramatic plumes surrounding the craft as they take to the sky. It looks like ...

Robert Goddard's historic flight in 1926 was a short one, but would be critical to the future of spaceflight as we know it.

Don’t look now, but rocket science is the new, uh, rocket science. In addition to long-time players on the private spaceflight scene like Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Arianespace, the potential profits ...

Two energy companies have proposed building a liquid natural gas facility at Port Canaveral. The facility would supply fuel for both the cruise ship and space industries. The project could create 50 ...