Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX's new Starship Torch trades the real spacecraft's six methane-fueled rocket engines with a refillable butane lighter. As ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Since the 1950s rocket engineers have toyed with the idea of a novel engine design that could –- in theory –- revolutionize the way we conceive of space travel. The aerospike might sound like a ...

Landing a real rocket with propulsion is an incredibly complex task that took years to perfect; only recently did it cross into the realm of actual practicality. Joe Barnard, creator of the Youtube ...

As the first space launch of the world's most powerful rocket looms, you can now "light" or "land" your own Starship. SpaceX on Monday (April 17) debuted two new scale models of its stainless steel ...