As global warming threatens the future of military and commercial aviation, a Chinese team of researchers with a vision to end fossil fuel dependence is making a big splash in the engineering industry ...

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of the propeller, they use a large hollow motor, with the blades attached to ...

Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...

close-up of jet engine nacelle with a strake on the side - Dinujaya/Shutterstock There are many components that go into a jet engine, from combustors to compressors to those gigantic fans that are a ...

GE Aerospace (GE) tapped Palantir Technologies (PLTR) as part of a new U.S. defense contract aimed at boosting readiness for the Air Force’s T-38 training fleet, marking the first digitally enabled ...

Mini jet engine makers ramp up output to meet drone demand Deep-strike drones crucial to Ukraine in war against Russia New entrants join market, but race is on to meet demand PRAGUE/STOCKHOLM/LONDON, ...

The first of the two patents, both of which were first brought to wider attention by CarBuzz, indicated that using a turbine as a steady-state generator could be considerably more efficient than what ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than previous ion engines.