NASA’s latest breakthrough, the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), could revolutionize space travel with up to 5% greater fuel ...

The X-1 was first flown on glide tests, in Florida, after being dropped from a B-29 at 29,000 feet. It wasn’t until information collected during the glide tests was processed, and adjustments were ...

NASA and Rocket Lab are entering a new era with Neutron, a rocket including 3D printed parts that will fly in mid-2025.

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

The Sea Dragon, a 490-foot behemoth, would have been built of inexpensive steel and launched from the sea, minimizing ground infrastructure.

A Chinese start-up will conduct research into a "suborbital airliner" powered by a ramrotor detonation engine.

“The final test achieved a fantastic 6,000 Newtons of thrust, breaking the previous record set by the University of Sheffield ...

A team of University of Bristol students have designed, built, and tested a rocket engine to 6000 Newtons – roughly the same ...

Listen to Story Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos both congratulated and appreciated each other SpaceX's Starship lifted off from South Texas but exploded Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reached orbit ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test flight of ... SpaceX confirmed on the live broadcast that the spacecraft's engines started to go out prior to planned engine cut-off and Starship ...

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...