The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his son, Robert, and Henry Booth, for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ...

The Ariane 5 rocket flew its last mission in June, leaving Europe without a heavy-lift vehicle to carry spacecraft to orbit. Its operator, Arianespace, is working on the rocket’s successor, the Ariane ...

Later this year, SpaceX plans to perform the first test flight of its heavy-lift rocket, known as the Falcon Heavy, with a view to one day taking astronauts to the moon or Mars. And exactly how the ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has 27 engines and is designed for the biggest missions. This still was posted to the SpaceX Twitter account with a link to an animation showing the Falcon Heavy rocket flight ...