Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has achieved “first plasma” in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket, designed to propel rockets faster than any object has ever traveled.

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It was not an overly impressive flight. The rocket, fueled by gasoline and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Californians are likely used to seeing SpaceX's Falcon 9 thundering into the sky and soaring overhead, but another rocket is soon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Esther Goddard/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, ...

SpaceX is planning its first April rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Here's what to know and where to watch.

(THE CONVERSATION) Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March ...

The upcoming test flight, dubbed "Stairway to Seven," is the seventh for the Alpha rocket. Following the mission, Firefly will debut a new, taller version of Alpha for flight 8. The company also ...