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.

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 ...

Guided missiles also appeared in the mid-twentieth century with air-breathing propulsion systems ... to a gigantic F-1 motor from the Saturn V Moon rocket. National Air and Space Museum Rocket, Liquid ...

China's Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the Tiangong space station have created oxygen and ingredients for rocket fuel for the first time with the help of "artificial photosynthesis" technology.

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 ...