Ares is NASA's first new rocket since the space shuttle was developed in the late 1970s. It is supposed to replace the shuttle fleet, which NASA plans to retire next year, although the first ...

NASA is developing alternative designs to the Ares I rocket at the request of a White House-appointed panel that's reviewing the future of manned spaceflight. That has some space experts worried ...

NASA rolled out its first new space craft in about three decades early Tuesday morning, a towering, spindly rocket called the Ares I-X. The Ares is slated for an Oct. 27 test flight, the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--NASA's towering Ares I-X rocket was hauled to the launch pad early Tuesday for blastoff October 27 on a $445 million unmanned test flight that likely will play a major ...

NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House. The 327-foot Ares I-X rocket ...

A prototype of the Ares I rocket blasts off last October from Kennedy Space Center. The rocket that President Obama wants to kill is not dead yet. NASA managers in charge of the rocket ...

The rocket is Ares I-X — a suborbital prototype for the Ares I rocket NASA plans to use to launch its shuttle successor, the Orion spacecraft. Currently the world's tallest booster, the Ares I-X ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's brand-new Ares 1-X rocket, the vehicle planned to launch astronauts spaceward after the space shuttles are retired, is poised to make its first-ever test flight ...

But rest assured, NASA's new Moon rocket could've been an even bigger mess had they not radically changed course. This is the story of NASA's Ares-class super-heavy lift vehicle. Before SLS ...

The first flight of NASA's newest rocket was scrubbed this morning after upper-level winds, clouds and an errant freighter created several delays for its initial launch. The Ares I-X rocket was ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After a one-day wait for the clouds to clear, the Ares I-X test rocket finally blasted off from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday morning in a picture-perfect launch that is ...