While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

SpaceX Starship was run through a wet dress rehearsal for launch. Watch amazing drone view of the frosty rocket as it was filled with over 10 million pounds of propellant. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ...

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Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" satellites on Saturday (Feb. 8). A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron rocket carrying five spacecraft for the French company ...

Specifically, Schroders is leveraging Propellant’s fixed-income transparency data through Virtu’s global multi-asset execution management system (EMS), Triton Valor. Gregg Dalley, global head of multi ...

A Rockledge company has taken a big step forward in its ambitious plan to test the use of cryogenic propellant to power ... journey toward a 2026 launch from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launch ...

There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. It’s about gravity – something all of us experience every moment of every day. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with its Crew Dragon capsule ...

The explosion that destroyed the upper stage of SpaceX's Starship vehicle yesterday (Jan. 16) was likely caused by a leak, Elon Musk said. Things went well initially. The vehicle's two stages ...

Rocket Lab launched 16 rockets in 2024, 60% more than the 10 it launched in 2023. Rival SpaceX launched far more rockets -- 138 -- but its growth rate from 2023 was slower. Fully-loaded Rocket Lab ...

This was the fifth Jielong-3 (or Smart Dragon-3) solid propellant rocket, and it lifted off from a specially converted sea barge off the coast of Haiyang city in the Eastern province of Shandong.