Image: SpaceX's rocket made the test flight from a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Pic: AP/Eric Gay Image: SpaceX's rocket and booster separate during a test flight launched from Texas.

This will be the launch pad from where an Indian could be sent in a rocket to land on the Moon by 2040. The spindle-shaped island of Sriharikota, some 100 km north of Chennai on the Bay of Bengal ...

The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being gripped by a pair of mechanical arms dubbed chopsticks. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket thundered away in late afternoon from Boca ...

Approval has been given for the first UK launch of a traditional "vertical" rocket. The critical clearance from the air safety regulator has taken the country a step closer to seeing its first ...

the firm posted just a few minutes later. An initial test launch of the towering 320-foot (98-meter) rocket, dubbed New Glenn in honor of legendary American astronaut John Glenn, had been scrubbed ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center ... [+] on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch occurred at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

But this launch will be seen as a major step forward for the business. The New Glenn rocket was named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth more than 60 years ago.

The first vertical launch of a rocket into orbit from European soil could take place from the UK's most northerly point this year after a German company won approval for spaceflight, regulators ...

German firm Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) have been awarded the first Launch Operator Licence allowing it to launch rockets from the SaxaVord Spaceport. The licence, granted by the Civil Aviation ...

The booster, meanwhile, flipped around, re-ignited several engines to reverse course and headed back toward Boca Chica where the unique mechanical arms on the rocket's launch gantry were open and ...