This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

SpaceX rocket carrying Crew-10 launches into space Posted: March 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 15, 2025 NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 officially made it into space on the evening of March 14, heading to ...

The most probable torchship designs proposed are nuclear pulse propulsion (e.g., Project Orion) and nuclear salt water rockets (NSWR). These leverage high thrust and exhaust velocity to achieve >300 ...

Famed engineer, NASA technologist, spaceflight expert, and author Les Johnson summarized the potential for nuclear propulsion to Interesting Engineering via email: “Using a fission rocket to get ...

The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March ... the lead flight system engineer on SPHEREx at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Amgen’s $400 million eczema drug candidate has recorded two more phase 3 victories. The data drops provide more evidence that the Kyowa Kirin-partnered rocatinlimab improves outcomes in atopic ...

The Houston Rockets ahead-of-schedule season — 39-25 and fifth in the West — has been a true team effort, with eight players averaging double-digit points. While Alperen Sengun was a deserving ...

The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and to reach Mars.

They would roughly double the efficiency of traditional chemical rockets while delivering much higher thrust than ion propulsion systems. Cutting down travel time is an incredibly important goal ...