I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

From plasma engines that could turn months of travel into weeks to the first blueprints for ships that will outlive their ...

Russia has historically been a trailblazer when it comes to space exploration. It was the first to put a human into space in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin. It led the way for the first spacewalk and had the ...

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

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a ...

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that ...

The H3 rocket launched on Sunday at 8:51 p.m. ET from the Tanegashima Space Center, located on a southwestern Japanese island. The rocket’s second-stage engine burn failed to ignite on time, resulting ...

Welcome to Edition 8.14 of the Rocket Report! We’re now more than a week into a federal government shutdown, but there’s been little effect on the space industry. Military space operations are ...

The commercial firm is awaiting clearance to launch a prototype cargo spacecraft while also working on a suborbital tourism vehicle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Japan’s space agency failed in its latest attempt to launch its flagship rocket, leaving it unable to place a key component ...

South Korea satellite launch startup Innospace launched the first commercial rocket from Brazil’s Alcantara Space Center.