European student teams are offered the chance to design and build experiments suitable for flight on balloons and sounding rockets to be launched from Esrange Space Center – Europe’s only land based ...

Richard Massey has received funding for SuperBIT from the Royal Society and from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council. Fionagh Thomson has carried out consultancy work for the UK space ...

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 ...

Space flight enthusiasts talk confidently about trips to the moon, but so far no rocket, even an unmanned one, has climbed more than 0.25% of the distance—about 600 miles, unofficially credited to the ...

To get things into orbit at the moment, you need a pretty big rocket. While companies like SpaceX are trying to bring down the cost of launching by making their rockets reusable, the technology is ...

NASA is calling on middle and high school students across the country to submit experiment ideas for a high-altitude balloon or rocket-powered lander test flight in the third TechRise Student ...

Before Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum were entrepreneurs, they were researchers. Occasionally, they were even the subjects of their research: The pair first made headlines in the early ’90s when ...