Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 16—The hayfield where Jacob Jones is doing some science is a beautiful spot with nearly panoramic views. But Jones, slight, ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines work differently than traditional rockets to maximize thrust while using less fuel—an ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a winner of the 2025 ...

The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster—17 successful missions this year, and counting—and is close to bringing ...

It has been a century since Robert H. Goddard launched a rocket that launched modern rocketry. What was revolutionary wasn’t the height or distance of his rocket’s flight. On March 16, 1926, it rose ...

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and ...

Rockets that are launching things into space, like satellites or space probes, don’t actually have much trouble getting past the Earth’s atmosphere. Rockets encounter most of the resistance when ...

Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...

Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...