"It is actively being studied together with new types of nontoxic propellants made from alcohol that offer promise as alternatives to the conventional petroleum-based rocket fuels," Rusek says.

Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of "artificial photosynthesis." The breakthrough technology, which used fairly basic equipment and minimal ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely ... of a combustion chamber that has a annular, ring-type construction. In this ring, fuel and oxidizer is injected, and ignited in such a way ...

Historically, there have been two types of rocket systems: liquid and solid ... They are inherently safe, use nontoxic, inexpensive fuels, and can be turned on and off. But scientists have been unable ...

Chinese scientists claim to have found a new way of injecting helium into rocket engines, which could be used to make missiles that are much harder to detect or intercept. The new technology was ...

A new type of rocket engine that could improve aircraft ... computer model of RDRE that will simulate the chemistry of fuel and air interactions in combustion along with representations of ...

Most rocket fuels are based off fossil fuels ... team of researchers led by the University of Bologna in Italy are now going to be developing a new type of electric thruster that runs off plasma ...

While many scientists are looking into theoretical space engines, others are focusing on the tried and true—such as plain old-fashioned engines that burn rocket fuel. In this new study ...