Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX shared images of the new Dragon Crew capsules that will be used for the Polaris Dawn mission. Photo by SpaceX/X Aug. 22 ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The ...

Polaris Dawn — a daring private mission to space — ended successfully for its four astronauts with a pre-dawn Sunday splashdown near the Dry Tortugas off the Florida coast. The five-day trip, funded ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman may not have to wait too much longer to get back to space as SpaceX aims to launch his Polaris Dawn mission by the end of the month from Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff is now ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Anna Menon just took TCU to another level, literally. The TCU alum, who graduated from the Fort Worth university in 2008, was on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn launch Tuesday, making her ...

A member of the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first violin solo in space — appropriately to the tune of a “Star Wars” theme — after participating in the first-ever civilian spacewalk. After ...

Dawn Aersopace just leveled up. The Dutch-New Zealand company just announced that its suborbital space plane, Mk-II Aurora, completed its first set of rocket-powered test flights late last month, ...

The Mk-II Aurora, a spaceplane with a primary composite structure from Dawn Aerospace (ChristChurch, New Zealand), has been awarded a certificate by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA, U.K.) to fly at ...