This one, though, takes the cake. It’s a gun designed to send very small payloads into space on a suborbital trajectory. The gun itself is an 8-inch bore, 45-foot long monster of an artillery piece.

The movement to expand gun rights gained further momentum Tuesday as voters returned Donald Trump to the White House — this time accompanied by a vice president who has called for disbanding the ...

It is a high-tech variant of a very old technique known as 'spiking the guns'. Nobody doubts that Ukraine has the technology to find Russian artillery, with a combination of U.S. supplied counter ...

The SpaceX CRS-31 mission launched Monday evening docked successfully with the International Space Station shortly before 10:00 a.m. ET Tuesday morning. Unique among the myriad of items the ...

In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 miles away, researchers will study whether wood is sturdy enough for space.

The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space. The satellite, designed by Japanese researchers, was launched on Tuesday. Experts hope to test how timber can be used in the ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, Nov. 4, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on NASA's CRS-31 resupply mission to the International Space Station. Original story: It's ...

KYOTO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

The company said in a statement it wasn't clear whether the puncture was caused by a tiny piece of space debris or a micrometeoroid. The firm is also unsure when the accident occurred as the ...

The world's first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said Tuesday, part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Scientists at Kyoto ...

A SpaceX rocket launched Monday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the world’s first satellite model with wooden components, marking a potential shift in space engineering ...