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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Five Southern California Girl Scouts are getting ready to soar. They weren't able to blast off into space -- but their science projects did! It's all part of the "Making Space ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields — formally called thermal protection systems — are ...

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 ...

(This story has been updated with the latest target launch time information.) United Launch Alliance crews are now targeting 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 9, to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying ...

The students traipsed down into the depths of the quarry on a frigid night in February 2020 to fire their liquid-fuelled rocket engine. It was an ambitious goal, less generously characterized as ...

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 ...