NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

For centuries, rocket engines evolved alongside war, science, and human ambition. From primitive gunpowder weapons to the engines that carried astronauts to the Moon, progress was driven by necessity ...

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

The history of the rocket stretches back far longer than most people realize. Long before spaceflight, early civilizations ...

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

A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

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