Could the night sky itself be used as a lab for one of the Earth’s most elusive atmospheric enigmas? NASA is trying an unconventional triple-rocket launch Monday night from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, launching the Turbulent Oxygen Mixing ...

An increase in megaconstellation launches, especially from SpaceX’s Falcon 9, are leading to an “unregulated geoengineering experiment.”

Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab says it plans to fly its Neutron launcher in a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) mission rocket cargo experiment. The flight of the Neutron launcher will happen no earlier than next year, the company said May 8 in conjunction ...

Early risers in Central Pennsylvania this morning may have caught a glimpse of a rocket launch. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia announced it launched a sounding rocket at 5:30 a.m.

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth's far upper atmosphere. The experiment's outcome could ...

For the second time in two months, said Rocket Lab, it has supported a Varda mission using Electron rockets and Pioneer spacecraft to loft W-3 space capsules from Varda into Earth orbit, then return them to the ground successfully. Privately held ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Some Hampton Roads residents might be able to catch a glimpse of a rocket launch early Thursday morning. According to the Wallops Flight Facility, a ...