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 ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

cleaners- all things that can be used as rocket fuel. He also talks about all of the solid reasons you don’t want to do this at home. If this type of things gets your molecules excited ...

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

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 ...

"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.

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...

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 ...

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 ...