There's a lot that can go wrong on a rocket launch. Over the decades, however, the failure rate has been surprisingly consistent. They make the biggest headlines, of...

Launching rockets to space is a high-stakes, unforgiving business, with razor-thin margins between success and failure. NASA’s latest rocket-launching endeavor, the Artemis program, is once again...

Despite millions of dollars being poured into rocket technology and some of the best minds on our planet being involved in trying to propel these vehicles out of the Earth’s orbit, space...

New countries launching rockets generally fail half the time, he said. John Glenn recalled how NASA's first astronauts watched in horror as an Atlas rocket blew up in front of them. More...