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 ...

When it comes to powering rockets, you can either go with liquid fuel or solid fuel, but there are some critical differences ...

The only people who value ease of maintenance at a cheap cost to manufacture, more than NASA, are people cruising Craigslist and eBay for a low-mileage 350 small-block Chevy motor at three in the ...

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

Three of the four RS-25 engines powering the Artemis II mission previously flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. The engines are cooled by liquid hydrogen to prevent the nozzle from melting from the ...

TOKYO - Japan successfully launched an H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan and released small ...

Welcome to Edition 8.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re back after the Thanksgiving holiday with more launch news. Most of the big stories over the last couple of weeks came from abroad. Russian rockets ...

In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit ...

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...