NASA's moon megarocket is going to get a heckuva lot… mega-er. Though the U.S. space agency has only completed the crewless Artemis I mission around the moon and back so far, engineers are busy ...

NASA's megarocket is back in its giant garage after completing a mission-critical dress rehearsal at the launchpad for its first voyage to the moon.. Credit: NASA/Maddison Tuttle NASA's megarocket is ...

The Ohio State University is developing a new nuclear thermal propulsion system called the centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket (CNTR). Rather than solid fuel elements, this new design uses liquid ...

China has completed a first hot fire test of a fully-assembled powerful new engine that could power new launch vehicles and boost the country's space capabilities. The full system test of the ...

Bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the SpaceX vehicle is central to NASA’s plans to get to the moon and Elon Musk’s dreams of the red planet. By Kenneth Chang For Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ...

Generally speaking the rockets in use today in space exploration are not airbreathers. They are built in such a way that they generally carry both the fuel and the oxidizer they need to work, and that ...

Interestingly, the rocket engine was created entirely by an advanced artificial intelligence system. LEAP 71’s “Noyron,” a powerful Large Computational Engineering Model, autonomously generated the ...

When the exhaust nozzle on one of the Vulcan rocket's strap-on boosters failed shortly after liftoff earlier this month, it scattered debris across the beachfront landscape just east of the launch pad ...