The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is facing new challenges, with technical problems in the Orion capsule putting the mission timeline at risk. Issues with the heat shield, propulsion systems, and ...

SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...

Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled the 404-foot-tall (123.1-meter) rocket through a clear afternoon sky ... Officials were eager to assess the performance of Starship Block 2’s heat shield before ...

The experiments NASA conducts could unearth crucial data for the agency’s Artemis campaign ... which is testing material designed to shield the lander from heat, and Hungary’s Puli Space ...

Invented at Ames, NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET)—the brown, textured material covering the bottom of the capsule in this photo—is a woven heat shield ...

This innovative material has been developed to ensure a safe entry for future missions targeting high-temperature planets like Venus. The private Venus probe will be launched aboard Rocket Lab’s ...

Orion’s heat shield had suffered unexpected damage during the Artemis I reentry, missing fist-size chunks of its protective coating, and it took months to find a fix. Now NASA is pushing to ...

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin ... reduces likelihood of asteroid impacting earth to 1.5% FAA issues ground stop after SpaceX loses contact ...

South Africa-born Elon Musk's SpaceX called off the latest test flight of its Starship rocket just before its scheduled launch.