Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Isar Aerospace, based in Germany, is the first in a crop of new European rocket companies to attempt an orbital launch. If ...

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

Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws ...

The successful use of hybrid rocket engines in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for suborbital space tourism demonstrates the commercial viability of this propulsion method, paving the way for ...

When you were a kid, how did you think rockets worked? They blast off from a pad straight up, and then they're in space, right ... to generate as much downward thrust as possible.

This Electric Propulsion System ... performance metric for space propulsion systems—is at least six times that of conventional systems. "The life test was carried out under the full power ...

It retired the small rocket seen here in this 2022 file photo in favor of a larger Terran R design that aims to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force ... million pounds of thrust on liftoff.

This trip to space, which had ... 16 million pounds of thrust at full throttle. The upper part, also called Starship or Ship for short, looks like a shiny rocket from science fiction movies ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...