Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket propellant. Since [Markus Bindhammer] is building a hybrid ...

Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S.

The failure of a propellant tank during testing will delay the first launch of Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket to at least the ...

If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it’s going to take more than rockets and launch pads. First, there’s the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase ...

NASA is reportedly seeking rocket components from Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp's joint venture, the United Launch Alliance (ULA). Costs Ballooned In a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, it was ...

A crucial test of NASA’s towering Space Launch System rocket is underway — marking one of the final steps before the vehicle launches four astronauts into deep space for the first time since the ...

Solid rocket motors—and the chemicals that fuel them—are a major limitation on America’s missile stockpiles, and one that ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...