Chinese startup Mega Engine advances reusable staged-combustion rocket engine A new Chinese commercial rocket engine startup ...

A new generation of space rockets is inching closer to launch. Private space company Astrobotic recently revealed it carried out a successful test of two of its rotating detonation rocket engines ...

Elon Musk's space company SpaceX successfully conducted a test launch of the next-generation model of its giant rocket ...

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s first for a rocket of this type, was ...

The road to the second flight of Blue Origin’s heavy-lifting New Glenn rocket got a lot clearer Thursday night with a success test-firing of the launcher’s seven main engines on a launch pad at Cape ...

UK space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has conducted the first test of a prototype exhaust system for a nuclear fusion rocket engine that could dramatically cut transit times for missions to Mars ...

WASHINGTON — Astrobotic, a developer of lunar landers and suborbital rockets, has successfully tested an advanced rocket engine that could power those vehicles. The Pittsburgh-based company announced ...