What if reaching Mars took only 30 days? Russian researchers have developed an innovative plasma engine, promising to ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

They are also simply too slow for deep space travel. According to NASA’s estimates, spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars.

A SpaceX test flight has ended in failure after an upgraded Starship rocket exploded over the Atlantic ... SpaceX said the vehicle’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with initial data ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself ... The basic principle is simple but with engineering ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

The vehicle's first stage will land vertically, similar to a Falcon 9 rocket, and the second stage, which has a novel metallic heat shield and engine design, will also land back on Earth.

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday ... The spacecraft’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one during ascent, with contact lost just 8 1/2 minutes ...