Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

The launch was conducted after a 27-hour countdown and the 50.9-metre tall rocket took off at around 6.23 am from the second ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...

China's achievement is valuable for long-term space exploration, enabling self-sufficiency and enabling missions like a ...

HYDERABAD: Space — it has always boggled our brains, hasn’t it? When the human race had supposedly had enough of their ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

NASA’s latest breakthrough, the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), could revolutionize space travel with up to 5% greater fuel ...

Today, rockets heavily rely on chemical propulsion. Deep space probes like Voyager 1 and 2, meanwhile, have used ion propulsion to reach further than any human-made spacecraft. While chemical ...

Nayuta Space secured “tens of millions ... oxygen engines developed by Beijing Aerospace Propulsion Technology Co. Ltd., a commercial rocket engine maker founded in 2018. The company aims ...