The video itself is a reaction to some college students in Utah who caused an evacuation when the rocket fuel they were cooking up exploded. [Scott] himself theorizes that the fuel they were ...

An international team of engineers and space scientists has used a variety of assumptions, techniques, and math principles to ...

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

When Germany surrendered to the Allies, the SS ordered that all the books, charts, and records ... involved in inventing a new fuel formulation for the rocket. After the Vanguard failures in ...

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

For nearly a year, SpaceX has been trying out something new: super-cooling the liquid oxygen (LOX) which is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It's called deep-cryo LOX, and the idea has been around ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ... By Sadie Watkins Unlike conventional chemical rockets, nuclear thermal ...

The tankers, Golbon and Jairan, are set to begin their journey in the next few weeks, and are allegedly loaded with rocket fuel for Tehran's armed forces, according to The Financial Times.

The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans ...

After lift-off, the rocket quickly burns through its fuel. Once the tanks are empty, they break away from the rest of the rocket and fall back to Earth. When the astronauts reach the ISS ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey. This latest batch of tests was conducted at the compact fuel element ...