With a rotating detonation engine, NASA is tackling the challenges of chaotic combustion to enhance rocket efficiency. This ...

NASA has been conducting a series of hot fire tests to certify RS-25 engines for use on the Space Launch System rockets that ...

Plasma jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 provide new insights into jet formation.

On that mission, a Falcon 9 rocket sent 27 Starlink broadband craft to low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base. About eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage returned to ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner, ...

Tokamak Energy receives a new 1 MW gyrotron to superheat plasma in its ST40 fusion device, advancing the development of ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today, at 9:07 a.m. EST (1407 GMT; 6:07 a.m. local time). The Falcon 9's first stage booster returned to ...

NASA has successfully tested innovative shape memory alloy spring tires for Mars rovers, enhancing durability on rugged terrain. Shape memory alloys are metals that return to their original shape ...

MSD's pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) drug Winrevair has been accelerating at a breakneck pace since its launch earlier this year – and data from a new phase 3 study could give it a turbo ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), referred to as the "artificial sun," has achieved a new milestone in nuclear fusion research. The reactor maintained ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like ...

Laser-produced plasmas have been used to create short bursts of x-rays and to accelerate particles — so-called plasma-based accelerators. Laser produced plasmas are also useful for recreating ...