The video itself is a reaction to some college students in Utah who caused an evacuation when the rocket fuel they were cooking up exploded. [Scott] himself theorizes that the fuel they were ...

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

We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.

Project, the University of Bologna will be developing a new electric thruster for rockets that is propelled by water being turned into plasma through electrolysis. While prototypes of water-powered ...

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...

Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using a ...

For nearly a year, SpaceX has been trying out something new: super-cooling the liquid oxygen (LOX) which is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It's called deep-cryo LOX, and the idea has been around ...

Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully ...

Rocket thrusters powered by the hydrogen and oxygen in water do exist, and while NASA succeeded with using this kind of propulsion system to launch their PTD-1 CubeSat in 2021, water fuel has not ...