One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully hot-fire tested a radically new type of rocket engine specifically designed to use oxygen and methane propellants that range from all-gas to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an early cooling liner for a ...

The new design could help address the growing problem of space debris, with the rocket devouring itself before reaching orbit. Reading time 2 minutes A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, ...

Starship Flight 12 took another step toward launch, with Booster 19 completing an initial test campaign on the newly ...

Whereas up until recently we lived in a world where new engine development was mainly done in the automotive industry, the resurrection of humans’ interest in space exploration has some interesting ...

New Zealand-based Rocket Lab has built a rocket engine that's not only 3D-printed -- it uses electric motors to drive the turbopumps. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

Click to open image viewer. This is an early cooling liner for a Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) liquid-propellant, regeneratively-cooled rocket engine. The helical wrapped wires promoted the flow of fuel ...