On May 28, 2026, SpaceX pinned Super Heavy Booster 19 to the orbital launch mount at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, and lit ...

The first stage of the design, the Super Heavy booster, has 33 Raptor engines to get it going. These are reengineered ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...

Nigerian investigators probing a loss of thrust in both engines of a Hawker 900XP have disclosed that one of the powerplants – which had stopped responding to thrust commands – became responsive again ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing ...

The world’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially for transportation, has left a deep mark on both the planet and public health. Burning these fuels releases a flood of greenhouse gases, which ...

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's major space contractor, conducted on Sunday a major test on a new ...

Blue Origin, the reusable rocket startup created and bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, successfully fired the thrust chamber of a hydrogen-fueled engine being developed with help from a ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...