The U.S. military is considering Johnston Atoll, a remote Pacific island chain that serves as an important refuge for dozens ...

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...

The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants ...

Landing tests at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific could advance a plan to use rockets to ship military cargo but could also ...

Their light faded, and at6:45 the sun burst bright and yellow above a cloud bank to bathe the slender dark-green-and-white Vanguard rocket standing on Launch Pad 18A. In Vanguard’s nose was a ...

The idea is to launch rockets to carry big cargo loads around the world from the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — The Navy triumphantly hurled a new American satellite into space today in the nose of a Vanguard. The rocket overcame past failures in the bursting flame of a spectacular ...

Fortunately, it's now possible to find mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with expense ratios as low as 0%. Then there's tax efficiency. Many funds generate regular taxable events, from ...

SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force plan to test hypersonic cargo rockets on Johnston Atoll, a Pacific wildlife refuge home to over ...

In 1957, the Vanguard rocket that was intended to put the first U.S. satellite in orbit blew up on the pad while millions watched on television. News cameras perched across from Cape Canaveral ...

Marine ecologist Dr. Alan Friedlander, who has been based in Hawaiʻi for the past 35 years and now is Chief Scientist of ...

1957 sparked worries in the U.S., made all the more vexing by the embarrassing and humiliating failure later that year of America's first satellite launch when the U.S. Navy's Vanguard rocket went ...