Engineers have identified a “very unusual” oxygen fire in a turbopump as the reason a rocket engine exploded during a test at the spaceport in Shetland earlier this week. The blast on Monday ...

A rocket engine exploded in flames during a test at the SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland, which last year became Britain's first licensed vertical rocket launch site. BBC footage showed a large ...

Billionaire adventurer Jared Isaacman will become the first private citizen to walk in space this week with the launching of ...

The Polaris Dawn mission featuring the first civilian space walk is now set for Monday following repeated delays due to ...

A SpaceX rocket set to blast off on a mission to reach a new ... a helium leak in a launch pad hose that pumps helium into its engines. Unfavorable conditions forecast off the coast of Florida ...

The blast happened on Monday during ... hope to eventually send the UK's first vertical rocket into orbit. RFA said eight out of a planned nine engines were ignited, but one developed an "anomaly ...

Matthew Gordon is part of elite university team that 'exists so that students can get really cool hands-on aerospace and ...