What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder will launch a 60-foot rocket out of New Mexico on Friday, which, once launched, will reach the speed of sound within seconds and complete its scientific ...

These hands-on projects are a highly engaging way for high school students to explore aerodynamics and physics.

Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...

A U.S. defense project meant to track underground explosions just made a surprising discovery: it can also detect rockets falling from space. While studying shockwaves rippling through the atmosphere, ...

Yale astrophysicist Marla Geha was visiting U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, appropriately enough, when she realized she needed to take her rocket science class global. Geha, a ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into space. (Jorge Villalba/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Moon is constantly accosted by ...

Scrub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, April 9, weather-postponed liftoff attempt of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on the inaugural Amazon ...

After a previous failed launch, members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project solids team harbored doubts as they arrived at the Mojave Desert testing site 13 months ago. Their new competition rocket had ...

Launch doubleheader recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Thursday, Sept. 25, back-to-back morning liftoffs of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.