What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

For most of the space age, rocket launches were rare. Their environmental impact was also negligible. A plume here, a plume ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/ESRANGE/Lars Thulin A suborbital rocket is set to help scientists take the next step ...

Students from eight community college and university teams will see more than a year of effort take flight into space with the launch of Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket from NASA’s Wallops ...

NASA selected 10 student experiments from across the country to fly on a rocket mission June 7 from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. During the weeks leading up to the launch, students ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed ...

The rocket was carrying student experiments to suborbital space for the RockOn and RockSat-C programs. The experiments came from Old Dominion University and the Cubes in Space Program — a project ...