NASA's moon megarocket is going to get a heckuva lot… mega-er. Though the U.S. space agency has only completed the crewless Artemis I mission around the moon and back so far, engineers are busy ...

A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket booster. The 156-foot-long five-segment solid ...

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 ...

X-Bow Systems, a US supplier of advanced manufactured solid rocket motors (SRMs), has announced the successful test-fire of the Bolt Rocket equipped with the XB-32 SRM. The XB-32 motor, part of ...

Bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the SpaceX vehicle is central to NASA’s plans to get to the moon and Elon Musk’s dreams of the red planet. By Kenneth Chang For Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ...

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 is making huge improvements to the New Glenn rocket. In early 2026, there will be 15% more first-stage thrust and 25% upper-stage boost starting ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s private space company is hoping for a better performance of the giant rocket, which is the most powerful ever to fly. By Kenneth Chang Follow updates from the second Starship test launch ...

When the exhaust nozzle on one of the Vulcan rocket’s strap-on boosters failed shortly after liftoff earlier this month, it scattered debris across the beachfront landscape just east of the launch pad ...