The RS-25 engine will be used to carry humans on eventual mission to Mars. — -- NASA said it has cleared a milestone in the path to ushering in the next era of human space exploration after ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

SpaceX owns 98% of global rocket launches, a monopoly with virtually no competition. Only China is competing with Elon Musk at this point in number of launches and, while the country is getting closer ...

MIT master’s student Taylor Hampson is advancing research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), thanks ...

A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists for decades. Houston’s Venus Aerospace says it recently solved the puzzle.

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 ...

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Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into ...

A Texas-based startup just made aviation history. The company completed the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rocket engine that could be transformational for both hypersonic weaponry and ...