In this new study, the research team wondered how much energy would be needed to convert the moon's regolith into rocket fuel, and then to transport it to a space-based gas station. Prior research ...

Aboard China’s Tiangong space station (the name means Heavenly Palace ... a series of experiments that produced oxygen and ...

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 ...

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.

The space station is a kind of orbiting ... So as the rapidly expanding gas from the burning fuel is forced down towards the ground, it forces the rocket up into the sky.