L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

The engine for Japan's flagship small rocket, the Epsilon S, exploded during a combustion test on Tuesday, marking the second consecutive failure in its development. Officials reported no injuries or ...

The South Korean government has officially begun developing a methane-based space launch vehicle engine with 35-ton thrust, capable of reuse. This marks the first time the country has pursued ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A nuclear-powered space engine prototype must be developed in Russia by 2030, and two gigafactories will be opened this year, Alexei Likhachev, director general of Russia's ...

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...

An artist’s illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander, which will carry Tipping Point technology demonstrations funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, on the Moon. Credit ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

Axiom Space is in talks with India and European nations to explore "the best fit for its missions" and to diversify its supply chain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now outside our solar system, ...

Astronaut and geophysicist Andrew Feustel is a veteran of three NASA spaceflights and alumnus of Purdue EAPS. Currently he is Lead Astronaut with Vast. He spoke with Lucy Flesch, Frederick L. Hovde ...