One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.

Robert H. Goddard achieved the first liquid-fuel launch on March 16, 1926.

Israeli rocket scientist Ari Sacher provides expert analysis of the military firepower unleashed on Iran by the United States ...

LOS ANGELES — He finally went up — just like the self-taught rocket scientist always pledged he would. He came back down in one piece, too — a little dinged up and his steam-powered vessel a little ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wernher von Braun (second from right) was a Nazi physicist who later joined Nasa as a rocket scientist. (Pictured with members of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is not short on talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—just ask no less than a rocket scientist formerly associated with US space ...