Orbital data center startup Cowboy Space Corporation has unveiled Big Iron, an 86-meter stainless-steel rocket whose upper ...

If a new rocket developed by University of Glasgow engineers seems to get smaller as it burns, your eyes aren't playing tricks. It is. The new Ouroborous-3 (sic) rocket engine conserves fuel by eating ...

A commercial Chinese firm named LandSpace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket late Tuesday and made history as the first company to send a methane-fueled launcher into orbit, beating a bevy of US vehicles to ...

A team of engineers in the United Kingdom has developed a rocket capable of traveling beyond Earth's atmosphere while consuming itself for fuel before burning up completely. The rocket was built with ...

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Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where cans of the sugary stuff are processed ...

Throughout the history of rocketry and spaceflight, rocket engines have always used two distinct fuel types, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Liquid-fueled rockets store fuel and ...