For decades, engineers have fought to prevent detonations in rocket engines—now, NASA is using them on purpose. The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) is a radical innovation that leverages supersonic ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and ...

The new Russian rocket engine achieves higher acceleration than chemical rockets by using magnetic plasma accelerators, ...

“We're investigating using detonation as an alternative type of rocket combustion and studying whether we can sustain it to create enough thrust for spacecraft with an engine that is compact and ...

The Akronauts Rocket Design Team aims to become one of the few collegiate teams to reach space with their Emergence series of rockets.

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major ... Spagnoletti said the 4,000-pound-thrust Draper engine would be suitable for space-based interceptors as it was designed for both atmospheric ...

Members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project defy gravity (usually) as they produce entries for international competition from a ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

An incredible £50m nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists over the past decade has been unveiled for the very ...