Roderick Jackson has been appointed associate laboratory director for the Science, Energy and Innovation Directorate at the ...

Rocket Lab launched a mysterious satellite early Saturday morning (June 28). An Electron rocket topped with a single spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Saturday at 3:08 a.m.

The Department of Energy spearheads the AI-focused Genesis Mission. Learn about the initiative and DOE's partners.

Students and researchers will take their data and observations of these water systems to a learning lab, which will be ...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit. An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-15 satellite, ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) announced the successful launch of its two Explorer-class spacecraft. The launch was a part of NASA's ESCAPADE mission, in collaboration with the University of California ...

Autonomy, by contrast, is about decision‑making and adaptation. The leap from automation to autonomy is not just more actuators; it is a system that can perceive its environment, reason about options, ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...

Rocket Lab—the operator of the world’s second-busiest orbital rocket—has been touting its vision for a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter. Rocket Lab’s founder and CEO, Sir Peter Beck, laid out a ...

Rocket Lab shared its vision on X, formerly Twitter, stating, "Talk first. Land later," while unveiling plans for the MTO. The company described the satellite as a persistent, high-bandwidth ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Nov. 24 to launch the Genesis Mission. The Department of Energy will lead the major national effort. The program aims to transform science and ...