Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

The Orbital Carrier is being designed by Seattle-based company Gravitics and is funded through the Space Force's SpaceWERX development office, which partners with private industry to develop new ...

Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30).

The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...

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

Automakers also looked into alternate methods of propulsion during this period: one often-forgotten area of automotive ...

After ten years of quiet research, Pulsar Fusion has unveiled a nuclear fusion-powered rocket called the Sunbird. This spacecraft isn’t just another science fiction concept—it’s being designed to fly ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...

A SECRET space nuke could help Britain colonise Mars and even travel to the other side of the Solar System. The Sunbird is ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars. Pulsar Fusion ...

A secretive UK-based startup has just pulled back the curtain on a futuristic space propulsion project that sounds like ...

Robert H. Goddard is often referred to as the "father of modern rocketry" for his pioneering research in liquid propulsion. On that fateful day in 1926, Goddard launched a small rocket that flew for ...