From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration ...

Welcome to Edition 8.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re back after the Thanksgiving holiday with more launch news. Most of the ...

Without reusable rockets, China has turned to a wide variety of expendable boosters this year to launch less than half as ...

Rockets rarely blast straight upward and keep going in that direction. Instead, most orbital launches curve eastward, leaning ...

The first Australian-built rocket to attempt orbit lifted off from Queensland in a blaze of optimism, then slammed back into ...

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 ...

Shield AI and GE Aerospace have confirmed that the GE Aerospace F110-GE-129 engine will power the developmental X-Bat unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft. The pair have ...

China’s sixth-generation fighter programs are showing striking progress, with updated prototypes taking to the skies just 10 months after their initial public reveal, signaling a swift push to ...

In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit ...

A laboratory in Troitsk, Russia, may have just nudged humanity closer to interplanetary commuting. Scientists at Rosatom, the country's state nuclear corporation, have revealed a working prototype of ...

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 ...

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...