Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology ...

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space. Most rocket fuels are based ... now going to be developing a new type of electric thruster that runs off ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

The technology used to capture carbon already exists, although its application toward creating rocket fuel remains innovative. Extracting CO2 from atmospheric air requires different methods, including ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one ...

Credit: China Manned Space Agency Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of "artificial ... But by using different catalysts in the reaction, the ...

Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of "artificial photosynthesis ... which can be used as rocket fuel. But by using different catalysts in the ...