KOUROU, French Guiana - The James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble’s bigger, more powerful successor, is scheduled for liftoff on Christmas morning from the coast of South America. It will be the largest ...

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. NASA's ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has just achieved a remarkable milestone with the successful launch of Sentinel-1D. This new satellite is the final addition to the mission’s groundbreaking first ...

Two new rockets just launched within 30 minutes of each other, with each vehicle lifting off for just the third time. First up, Arianespace’s Ariane 6 launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ...

Along the East Coast of the U.S. on Tuesday night, onlookers snapped pictures and took video of strange lights in the sky — what could it be? Photos shared across social media showed a sort of ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

The new European Ariane 6 rocket lifted off on Thursday for the first time on a commercial flight into space, carrying a French air force satellite. Live images showed the rocket lifting off from the ...

PARIS (AP) — An Ariane 6 rocket roared skyward with a French military reconnaissance satellite aboard Thursday in the first commercial flight for the European heavy-lift launcher. The rocket took off ...

The European Ariane 6 rocket is due to be launched into space more frequently in the future, the Franco-German aerospace and ...