On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a rhesus monkey from Kansas, and her crewmate Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey from Peru.

UPDATE (Sunday, 5:30 p.m.) — SpaceX has pushed back the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The company is now targeting liftoff for Monday at 1:39 p.m. Officials say ...

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European ... seize a segment of a rapidly expanding space race, currently dominated by companies ...

In an announcement on Facebook, the company confirmed that the rocket’s nose cone separated prematurely, calling it a “pre-launch anomaly”. “During final launch preparations last night, an electrical fault triggered the system that opens the rocket’s nose cone (the payload fairing),” the statement read.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch Katy Perry, Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez and four other women into space on Monday. The New Shepard rocket is set to take off from Van Horn ...

There has been a delay in a historic Australian rocket launch, which was set to take off on Thursday morning. Friday could now mark a historic moment in Australia’s budding space ambitions with maverick manufacturing company Gilmour Space Technologies set to fire off its Eris rocket from a launch pad in North Queensland.

An uncrewed test rocket has fallen to the ground and exploded just seconds after it took off in Norway. German startup Isar Aerospace said this was an initial test as part of a project aimed at ...

The commercial space industry is booming ... There’s no word on whether we’ll be able to watch it take off. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need ...