China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar ...

A group of Kingston University in London engineering students have developed a rocket engine powered by an unusual but highly ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. began focusing on nuclear propulsion as an effective way to power space exploration with projects ...

Some of the UK’s brightest young engineers have gathered at the historic site of Britain’s Cold War rocket programme for the ...

Chinese rocket startup Landspace performed a crucial static fire test on Friday, June 20. The company is working toward an ...

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an apparent major setback for the program.

Kinetica-2, China’s new liquid propellant rocket, has successfully finished its first-stage power system test on Wednesday, laying a solid foundation for the maiden flight of Qingzhou, the ...

Scientists and engineers are diligently working on innovative concepts to make the next era of human spaceflight more powerful and more efficient using nuclear propulsion. One of these designs, known ...

Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926.

There’s a new liquid rocket on the launchpad, and it’s definitely not like the rockets of days past. It’s called a rotating detonation engine, or RDE, and those detonations are what make it ...

It is more than 50 years since the last nuclear thermal rocket engine tests were conducted by the USA. In a nuclear thermal rocket engine a fission reactor generates extremely high temperatures and ...