NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...

NASA has selected Arizona company Katalyst to save the Swift Observatory from its degrading orbit and will use the company's air-launched rocket to do so. Dropped by a Northrop Grumman L-1011 ...