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

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

Engineers are exploring propulsion methods that could enable longer-distance travel ...

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

With handful of start-ups on board from Hermeus to Venus Aerospace, hypersonic commercial flights could soon become a reality ...

Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...

This illustration shows what the planetary system may look ... close enough that future generations of humans may be able to ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

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.