Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket will use a novel kind of fairing called Hungry Hippo, it stays attached to the first stage after separation.

When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

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. Gravity is the force that pulls you toward the ground.

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 ...

This mission will mark the final Falcon 9 launch of 2025. In total, Falcon 9 launched 166 missions in 2025 — just shy of the ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...

The Saturn I rocket, developed by Wernher von Braun's team since 1957, was designed to facilitate American lunar ambitions, integrating components and reusing hardware from existing missile ...

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 ...

Students in St. Bernard Prep’s physics program recently traded textbooks for thrust as they wrapped up an ambitious ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to Just4Kids, a new feature with content from The Conversation for Kids, a nonprofit in which scholars answer kids’ questions about science, health and more, that will be ...