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.

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 ...

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 ...

We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.

The missions will use landers, rovers, and orbiters to analyze lunar soil, bolster communications ... and components for rocket fuel. Unlike the Apollo flights, these aren’t just NASA missions ...

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 ...