Instead, the twisting white swirl that sent social media alight was a fuel dump from a rocket launch, EarthSky authors said. The website that features stories about all things space and the night sky ...

SpaceX launched a new batch of Starlink satellites from California and Florida to continue the growth of its broadband ...

As it turns out, the cause of the strange light was a spacecraft, but not one piloted by little green men. There were two rocket launches last night that could have caused the anomaly, one launched ...

What was the mysterious white spiral flying in the night sky as stargazers looked up during the Perseid meteor shower peak ...

Theories suggest the display came from either the European Space Agency's Ariane 6 rocket or the United Launch Alliance's ...

Stargazers on the lookout for meteors were treated to an extra nighttime spectacular on Tuesday night as spirals appeared in the sky along the East Coast.

United Launch Alliance punched out its first Vulcan Centaur launch of the year Tuesday night, and its first ever for the ...

ULA Vulcan Launch completes its first National Security Space Launch mission, taking the reins from the Delta IV Heavy for ...

In the near-term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The ...

Did you notice a strange white spiral in the sky over New Jersey the night of Aug. 12? Here's what it could have been.

The spiral effect seen in the sky over western Mass. on Tuesday night was likely caused by the Vulcan Centaur rocket launch ...