North Korea fires solid rocket motor. North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket ...

One of these nine Rutherford engines used during the May 2022 There And Back Again mission could return to space later this year. Photo: Rocket Lab Reusability is the key to 21st century spaceflight, ...

Or maybe just something Wallace and Gromit might jam onto a rocket for a second Grand Day Out. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A Texas-based company has completed the inaugural flight test of a 3D-printed hybrid rocket engine system. The flight test, called GMLRS-class Firehawk Analog (GFA), demonstrated directional stability ...

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a ...

A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere to power its journey. A group of researchers from the University of Glasgow has built the ...

North Korea says it conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its ...

New Orleans has gotten rather used to hearing ear-splitting noises because of flying military jets in the sky. But a loud rumbling on Wednesday will be different. Stennis Space Center — the NASA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System ...

In the race to land the first humans on Mars, NASA is betting big on nuclear rocket engines to get its astronauts to the red planet. Earlier this year, the agency announced a partnership with the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China has been testing out a new engine designed to power a rocket to take astronauts to the moon ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Alan Boyle on July 11, 2023 at 2:49 pm July 11, 2023 at 10:34 pm Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine undergoes a test firing in Texas in 2019. (Blue Origin File ...