BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rockets hit Damascus International Airport on Thursday, activists and local media said, in one of the first major rebel attacks on the facility near the Syrian capital in months. Full story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have opened a probe into whether a Lockheed-Boeing joint venture that launches U.S. government satellites into space has flouted antitrust laws. Full story
A Chinese Long March rocket sends three spacefliers, including the country's second female astronaut, into orbit for a 15-day mission.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five car bombs, including several detonated by suicide attackers, and rockets hit a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 24 people, mostly policemen and soldiers, police and medical sources said. Full story
WASHINGTON — Stratolaunch Inc., the Huntsville, Ala., company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen seeking to develop a low-cost satellite launching system, has given Orbital Sciences Corp. a contract to build the world's largest air-launched space rocket. Full story
Skies across the Mid-Atlantic states are expected to be crystal clear tonight, and if all goes according to plan, the switchboards of local radio and television stations might see a sudden bevy of calls sometime between 11 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. EDT from people caught off guard by the sight of a soundi Full story
There are new fears on Sunday that the conflict in Syria could be spilling over into Lebanon after two rockets exploded in Beirut. NBC’s Richard Engel reports.
A successful launch for the European Space Agency's Vega VV02 rocket from French Guiana that is headed for space with three satellites. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Robotics engineers, grad students, and even rocket scientists battle with their brains to create solutions to engineering problems with real world applications (like transporting explosive material) on Discovery's 'The Big Brain Theory.'
Egypt’s military is searching for those behind a rocket attack that hit in the resort city of Eilat, Israel. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown reports.
The threats to the U.S. are becoming more strident as North Korea’s leader, Kim Jung Un, says his rockets are ready to strike America at any time. But experts do not believe Pyongyang has the capabilities it claims.
A member of the Free Syrian Army writes a name of a fellow fighter on a home-made rocket in Deir al-Zor, June 16, 2013. Picture taken June 16, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi (SYRIA - Tags: CONFLICT)
The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout
The Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 10 capsule blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The Shenzhou 10 capsule carrying three astronauts lifted off on a 15-day mission to dock with a space lab and to educate
Smoke rises from an orchard after it was hit by a rocket in Hermel, June 11, 2013. The town of Hermel was subjected to eight rockets from Syria, where one rocket caused the outbreak of a fire in an orchard, National News Agency reported. REUTERS/Rami Bleibel (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
