Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

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 ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

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 ...

This initiative’s success will open doors to sustainable exploration of space. How SpaceX intends to convert atmospheric CO2 into rocket fuel represents its unusual fuel initiative. The technology ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one ...

There are two main types of jet fuel — Jet A and Jet B (though a newer ... In other words, don't expect your truck to suddenly be a rocket-like speed demon. Similarly to what to do if diesel ...

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 ...

The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system, a type of nuclear rocket. According to GA-EMS president Scott Forney, the company's latest nuclear fuel tests show that their fuel ...