When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

NASA elected to grab key components from the Redstone and Jupiter rockets, combining multiple fuel tank designs together to ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to Just4Kids, a new feature with content from The Conversation for Kids, a nonprofit in which scholars answer kids’ questions about science, health and more, that will be ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could build a space agency around.

Failure is inevitable, aerospace experts say, so Japan needs to be less afraid of making mistakes and move on.

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...

Last year was a busy one for space missions, and 2025 looks set to be no different. The continued development of new rockets will feature heavily over the next 12 months. Heading into the new year, ...

Students in St. Bernard Prep’s physics program recently traded textbooks for thrust as they wrapped up an ambitious ...