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

the engines will have been in operation for 50,000 hours and will only have used 425 kilograms of xenon gas. Each kilogram of fuel will then have produced 10 times as much thrust as a kilogram of ...

The gas xenon, like the other noble, or inert, gases, is known for doing very little. The class of elements, because of its molecular structure, don’t typically interact with many chemicals.

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 ...