A US-based propulsion company has successfully launched and flown a new rocket powered by a unique rotating detonation engine. Although relatively small by rocket standards, the test could pave the ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Reusable rockets and SpaceX rocket technology cut launch costs dramatically, using Falcon 9 landings and Starship reusability to transform the modern space industry.

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists for decades. Houston’s Venus Aerospace says it recently solved the puzzle.

SpaceX owns 98% of global rocket launches, a monopoly with virtually no competition. Only China is competing with Elon Musk at this point in number of launches and, while the country is getting closer ...

Launching rockets may seem like a lofty goal achieved only at major companies like NASA and SpaceX, yet UC Santa Barbara ...

A Texas-based startup just made aviation history. The company completed the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rocket engine that could be transformational for both hypersonic weaponry and ...

The reusability of different parts of a space rocket has opened the doors to a literal flood of launches to Earth orbit and beyond. Thanks to the fact that space companies now no longer have to make a ...