Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

The dusk departure for the Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base delivered a Monday night display in the sky en ...

For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths. So it requires a very high escape speed: 133,100 mph (about 214,000 kilometers per hour ...

Security camera footage posted on the social media platform Sina Weibo captured the scene of two family members reacting to an explosion near their home that lit up the night sky. Fortunately, the ...

Cryogenic propellant is tricky to store but ETA Space ... at the start of its journey toward a 2026 launch from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launch pad. If successful, this has the potential to ...

New Glenn’s three-hour launch window began at 1 a.m. ET on January 13. The company loaded propellant into the rocket. But it got stuck troubleshooting the unspecified subsystem issue and pushed ...

Kenneth Chang There’s a new rocket that’s never flown waiting on a launchpad in Florida. It’s called New Glenn and it’s going to have to stay there a little longer. On Monday, propellants ...

Here’s how it works: Essentially, the rocket has to make thrust – that is, create force – by burning propellant to make hot gases. Then it shoots those hot gases out of a nozzle. It’s sort ...