Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched test for the continent's bid to build a new space economy. The Spectrum rocket, developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, started smoking from its sides, then crashed back to Earth...

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed on the attack, the White House said. "They discussed the steps we are taking to defend our forces and respond to any attack against our personnel in a manner and place of our choosing," it said in a statement.

The sleek mega rocket is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade -- and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Two prior attempts have ended in spectacular explosions.

Beirut, Lebanon--Lebanon's Hizbollah said it launched a salvo of rockets at an Israeli air control base on Tuesday in retaliation for deadly Israeli strikes on east Lebanon. Hamas ally Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily fire with the Israeli army since the Gaza war erupted in October, but strikes have been largely restricted...

A security source said that an Israeli drone shot two guided missiles at the building in Kfar Rumman, near the southern city of Nabatiyeh. At least 273 people have been killed on the Lebanese side since October, most of them Hizbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians, sparking fears of...

Intuitive Machines, the Houston company, hopes to become the first non-government entity to achieve a soft touchdown on the Moon.

Al-Asad airbase was targeted by 15 rockets" fired from Anbar province, which is home to the military base, an Iraqi police official from the region told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. He said 13 of the projectiles were shot down by anti-air defenses but that "two fell on the...

Washington, United States -- An historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing potential failure Monday due to technical problems, in a blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades. Fixed to the top of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan...

"Such an incredibly successful day," a SpaceX announcer said. "Even though we did have a… rapid unscheduled disassembly of both the Super Heavy Booster and the ship." The largest rocket ever built blasted off from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas shortly after 7:00 am local time.

A month of Israeli strikes on targets within the Gaza Strip have destroyed or damaged 45 percent of all housing units in the Palestinian territory, Balakrishnan Rajagopal said, warning the destruction comes at a "tremendous cost to human life". The UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing stressed...

Last week, the Islamic republic said it had successfully launched the Noor-3 imaging satellite by its three-stage Qassed rocket, in the latest display of its aerospace technology. Western nations have been warning against such activity, saying the same technology can be used for ballistic missiles including ones designed to carry...

According to lawyers and medics, rocket fire on residential areas of one of Darfur's main cities and shelling near hospitals in North Kordofan state killed at least 20 civilians. The doctors' union said that shells had struck near four hospitals killing four civilians. In the South Darfur rocket fired killed...

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its first flight, but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an "exciting" test of the spacecraft. The uncrewed rocket disintegrated minutes after successfully blasting off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica,...

Amman, Jordan--Jordan's army announced that a rocket exploded Saturday evening and its debris fell in Jordanian territory near the border with Syria without causing casualties or damage. It came as the Israeli army announced the launch of artillery strikes in Syria in response to rocket fire from there that landed in...

Billed as less costly to produce and fly, the unmanned Terran 1 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:25 pm (0325 GMT Thursday) but suffered an "anomaly" during second-stage separation as it streamed towards low Earth orbit, according to a livestream broadcast by aerospace startup Relativity Space. The company...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--Israel conducted air strikes on the central Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to AFP journalists and witnesses, hours after intercepting a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory. New rounds of rockets were fired from Gaza after these strikes, and fresh explosions could be heard from Gaza City at...

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has called for a major increase in the country's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes. Kim called for the increase at the end of a key party meeting in Pyongyang.

Gaza rulers Hamas arrested two people over firing rockets at Israel last week, a security source in the Palestinian enclave told AFP. Israel's army said rockets were launched Thursday from Gaza, the first such military action since three days of cross-border fighting in August. The incident prompted Hamas's internal security...

Three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia, Iran has announced the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space. While countries like the US have voiced concern that it could boost Iran's ballistic missile technology, Iran insists that such launches are for...

NASA has called off the scheduled Tuesday launch of its uncrewed mission to the Moon due to a tropical storm that is forecast to strengthen as it approaches Florida. After two previously canceled launch attempts, NASA is weighing returning the Artemis 1 mission rocket to its assembly site under the...

After the latest delay, there are backup opportunities on Monday or Tuesday. After that, the next launch window will not be until September 19, due to the Moon's position.

Between 100,000 and 200,000 spectators are expected to attend the launch of NASA's most powerful rocket yet, the uncrewed 98-meter Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

Egypt has been working behind-the-scenes to bring about de-escalation in the hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

Three Katyusha rockets hit a gas complex in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday, a local official said, in the latest attack to target the Emirati-owned facility. The assaults have come amid a simmering oil dispute between Kurdistan and the federal government in Baghdad.

Buying Twitter is just the latest conquest for Musk, who has revolutionized the car industry, sent his own rocket to space and built the world's biggest fortune.

It comes less than a month after Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed an assault on Arbil that it said targeted an Israeli ‘strategic center’.

Test milestones will be posted on NASA's blog for the Artemis mission, and the world will see the glimpse of rocket venting vapor on the launch pad on NASA's YouTube channel.

US interests and coalition troops in Iraq have regularly been targeted in rocket and armed drone attacks. They have never been claimed, but Western officials have blamed them on hardline pro-Iran factions demanding the departure of US troops.

Fragments fell to the ground after the interception of the drone over Abha International Airport, which has previously been targeted in similar assaults by the Houthi rebels. The injured included citizens of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka as well as two Saudis.

Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned a rocket attack against Baghdad airport that took place the previous day as an act that seeks to "destabilize" Iraq.

DEWA-SAT 1 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Israel shelled suspected Hamas military sites in Gaza Wednesday after gunfire from the Palestinian enclave wounded an Israeli civilian, security sources in Gaza said. Two Palestinian farmers were wounded by the Israeli artillery fire which targeted four suspected sites used by Hamas military wing the al-Qassam Brigades, the sources told...

The attack, the first to target the Green Zone since July 29, comes as authorities conduct a recount of votes cast in an Oct.10 parliamentary poll.

Unlike previous missions, there will be no experienced or officially trained astronaut onboard. The SpaceX launch is the first of American astronauts from US soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.

Israeli forces say one of the rockets was intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System and the second rocket fell in an open area inside Israel

His journey into space aboard a reusable rocket built by his firm Blue Origin comes just two weeks after he stepped aside as chief executive of Amazon

A rocket attack at an airbase on Wednesday injured 2 personnel in Anbar A spate of recent attacks on US forces  blamed on pro-Iranian groups BAGHDAD: Three rockets were fired at the US embassy in Iraq early Thursday, the Iraqi army said, at the end of a day marked by...