On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Albert III was the third monkey the U.S. attempted to launch to space. He was also the third one to be ...

True north This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket Isar Aerospace's first Spectrum rocket will launch from Andøya Spaceport in Norway.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Since at least the 1950s, rocket engineers have wondered whether another nozzle design, known as the aerospike, could be a more efficient way to send humans to the stars.

It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

Hardware This 20,000HP AI-generated rocket engine took just two weeks to design and looks like HR Giger's first attempt at designing a trumpet News By Andy Edser published 21 June 2024 ...

Nuclear engines are the future of spaceflight, but exactly which kind is still up for debate.

This AI can think like an engineer—and it just designed a spaceship engine Noyron software harnesses the creativity and problem-solving of engineers to design advanced machinery autonomously.

In the second of two features, BBC News Online looks at the legacy of the V-2 rocket - how the Americans and the Soviets raced to exploit the German technology and expertise they had captured at the ...

In the near century since Robert Goddard, the founder of modern rocketry, fired the first liquid-fuel rocket into the sky, rocket scientists worldwide have favored liquid-fuel engines to power ...

Rockets are a major part of American aviation and a common hobby in the form of model rockets, but where did the modern rocket engine start?