A bold new propulsion system, proposed by engineer Jim Woodward, suggests that it might be possible to escape Earth’s gravity ...

One might be inclined to think that rockets would launch straight upward, but they don't, they curve along the way, and ...

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday. The booster's nine engines switched off as ...

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

Powered by nine Aquila engines, the Spectrum rocket generated 16,860 pounds of thrust at launch. Isar Aerospace had high ...

A video (top) shows the Ariane 6, which is similar to SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket in terms of launch thrust, leaving the launchpad on Thursday. The footage also captures other crucial ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

Before Starship’s eighth test flight, SpaceX said it made “several hardware and operational changes” to the spacecraft, including adjusting the rocket’s “operating thrust target,” or ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...