NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and ...

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

Russian scientists say they are closing in on a propulsion breakthrough that could compress the journey from Earth to Mars from roughly 300 days to about one month. The project centers on a high power ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

The reusability of different parts of a space rocket has opened the doors to a literal flood of launches to Earth orbit and beyond. Thanks to the fact that space companies now no longer have to make a ...

China is preparing to send a humanoid robot into orbit, positioning a private startup at the center of a new race to put ...

EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Space Engine Systems (SES), following on its success in securing a place in UK MoD’s Hypersonic Technology and Capability ...

The newly tested engines could power a variety of space projects. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's state-owned main space ...

The sixth flight of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, set for takeoff on Tuesday from South Texas, will test the vehicle’s limits in new ways. Most importantly, SpaceX will attempt to briefly reignite ...