China completes second hot-fire test for new moon rocket, including engine restarts China conducted a rocket stage hot fire ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

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

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

Instead of using solid fuel elements, this innovative design uses liquid uranium fuel to heat the rocket propellant directly.

What if spinning molten uranium at thousands of revolutions per minute held the secret to halving the travel time to Mars?

CAS Space, a rocket maker owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is completing research and development of its new carrier ...

UAlbany chemists created manganese diboride, a high-energy material with potential for rocket fuel and new technologies.

Space missions rely on cryogenic fluids—extremely cold liquids like liquid hydrogen and oxygen—for both propulsion and life ...

New developments in nuclear thermal propulsion technologies may soon enable advanced space missions to the farthest reaches of the solar system.

The South Korean government has officially begun developing a methane-based space launch vehicle engine with reusable 35-ton ...

CAS Space, a rocket maker owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is finishing research and development on its new carrier ...