SpaceX has shared dramatic footage and images of its Super Heavy booster firing up ahead of its eighth test flight.

Noah Haggerty is an environment, health and science reporter at the Los Angeles Times. With a background in physics, he has conducted research on spacecraft propulsion, fusion energy and plasma — the ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Propulsion Division at Edwards Air Force Base, California, is overseeing the project as part of ongoing efforts to advance upper stage propulsion ...

The first humans to Mars might someday ride a rocket propelled by a nuclear reactor to their destination. But before that can happen, nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technologies still have quite ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

10, we can explain. When SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California on Monday evening (Feb. 10), it was just another flight for the company to boost its growing Starlink internet satellite ...

SpaceX fired up its next Starship and booster for an engine test before the rocket's upcoming launch to space.

As snow falls throughout the Pacific Northwest, cameras are busy flashing and snapping in an attempt to capture the beauty of ...

Social media users are swooning over images of heart shapes found on Mars. The series of pictures were captured from the Mars ...

When SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California on Monday evening (Feb. 10), it was just another flight for the company to boost its growing Starlink internet satellite constellation.

NASA and DARPA announced in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, with a planned launch demonstration as early as 2027. The big drive behind these new propulsion ...