A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists for decades. Houston's Venus Aerospace says it recently solved the puzzle.

If it proves successful, CNTR could allow future vehicles to travel farther using less fuel. Traditional chemical engines ...

A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the US Department of Defense, and NASA are ...

Despite being perhaps the pinnacle of human ingenuity and imagination, space exploration is a relatively conservative business, at least in one respect: once it's proven something works, the industry ...

Since the 1960s engineers around the world have been fiddling with a novel type of jet called a rotating detonation engine (RDE), but it has never got beyond the experimental stage. That could be ...

ATLANTA — The future of space travel just got a boost thanks to one Georgia Tech undergraduate student. Dalton Luedke is a third-year aerospace engineering student at Tech, and also part of the NASA ...

Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space Technologes Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding to finance the development of its first-stage rocket engine, the orbital version of ...

North Korea fires solid rocket motor. North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket ...

North Korea has tested a new type of solid-fuel engine for intercontinental missiles, state media reported on Tuesday. State news agency KCNA reported that ruler Kim Jong Un personally attended the ...

SpaceX wants to put the two-stage rocket's massive booster through its paces. On Sunday, it postponed the launch "to ...