Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid ...

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, personally attended an important missile test of a new rocket engine for long-range ...

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

UAlbany chemists created manganese diboride, a high-energy material with potential for rocket fuel and new technologies.

What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...

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A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere to power its journey. A group of researchers from the University of Glasgow has built the ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — North Korea on Friday said it successfully test fired a “new type” of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile the previous day, an improvement over its existing ...

S EOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its latest advancement toward having an ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the final test of a powerful solid-fuel engine for intercontinental ballistic missiles, state media reported Tuesday.