A Soviet R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded on the launchpad, killing around 100 people.

For centuries, rocket engines evolved alongside war, science, and human ambition. From primitive gunpowder weapons to the engines that carried astronauts to the Moon, progress was driven by necessity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only thing stranger than science fiction is science fact. Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a short-lived documentary series ...

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and ...

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 ...

It has been a century since Robert H. Goddard launched a rocket that launched modern rocketry. What was revolutionary wasn’t the height or distance of his rocket’s flight. On March 16, 1926, it rose ...