Eclipses inspire awe and bring people together to observe a stunning celestial phenomenon, but these cosmic events also enable scientists to unravel mysteries of the solar system. NASA will launch ...

States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

This winter, two sounding rockets will launch through the aurora borealis over Norway to study how particles move in a region near the North Pole where Earth’s magnetic field is directly connected to ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Monday's solar eclipse presented a rare opportunity for NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore. A team at Virginia's Wallops Island sent three sounding rockets into ...

Standing no more than about 70 feet tall, sounding rockets are much smaller than an average spacecraft that may launch on an orbital flight from major spaceports For comparison, SpaceX's famous ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Mission accomplished! NASA successfully launched three Black Brant IX sounding rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility as part of the Atmospheric Perturbations around the ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - Precision sounding rockets are scheduled to lift off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Officials say the launch window is from May 11-18. They say the launch will ...

NASA has announced plans to launch three Black Brant IX sounding rockets as part of the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

NASA launched two suborbital sounding rockets about 30 minutes apart Thursday, Feb. 16, to test a new capability for supporting science research in the mesosphere, an area of the atmosphere between 31 ...

The rocket was carrying student experiments to suborbital space for the RockOn and RockSat-C programs. The experiments came from Old Dominion University and the Cubes in Space Program — a project ...

The 18th annual International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), organized by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA), is being held June 9-14 at Spaceport Midland. VisitMidland, the ...

Space news coverage is often headlined by crewed missions to the International Space Station or SpaceX's latest test of its enormous Starship spacecraft. States like Florida, Texas and California are ...