CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to launch in three years soared above a thick blanket of fog Tuesday morning sending a top-secret U.S. national security mission to space.

The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, serves military space launch missions as well as launches for NASA and commercial entities like SpaceX. But how do all those launches ...

Rocket launches are amazing spectacles, but close-up viewers know to bring a set of earplugs or earmuffs to protect their hearing. However, the boom of a launch isn't reserved for those who sign up to ...

If you were in a need a reminder to turn your clocks back at 2 a.m. Sunday, it could be a boom you heard less than an hour before was able to assist. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late ...

UPDATE (Wednesday): This story has been updated. For the latest update on the launch, click here. UPDATE: (Sunday): Vandenberg Space Force Base announced late Sunday afternoon that the COSMO-SkyMed ...

Southern Californians need not be alarmed this week if they hear a sonic boom, SpaceX warns. The aerospace company was aiming to launch NASA’s TRACERS mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on ...

I flew out of an airport that had been there since the 1930s. It grew and waned over the years, but was always present. Then some people built houses at the end of the runway in 2010 Then those people ...