Can water really power a rocket? Scientists are exploring ways to use water as fuel, from splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen to steam propulsion. It might just be the key to the future of space ...

Al Williams and I were talking about water rockets on the podcast the other day, and I realized that this was a perfect example of an open-ended simple project. It sounds really easy: you put some ...

The new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...

Through its WET (Water-Based Electric Thrusters) Project, the University of Bologna will be developing a new electric thruster for rockets that is propelled by water being turned into plasma ...