Since the invention of gunpowder in China more than seven centuries ago, humans have sent cylinders soaring into the skies with the help of controlled explosions. These craft and their engines, called ...

Ever wanted to launch a rocket in Minecraft? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a fully functional flying rocket using Redstone, slime blocks, pistons, and a bit of creative thinking. 🎮 ...

The New Zealand native has turned his scrappy rocket company into a small but determined competitor of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Investors have driven the stock up by more than 300% over the last year.

Blue Origin took another significant step toward the launch of its large New Glenn rocket on Tuesday night by rolling the first stage of the vehicle to a launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A SpaceX booster rocket has returned to Earth and been caught by giant robotic arms - following a successful launch of the company's reusable Starship spacecraft. It was the first attempt to bring the ...

Rocket Lab (RKLB) CEO Peter Beck has positioned himself as an outsider since the company’s inception in 2006. A New Zealand native with no college degree, Beck has long been seen as the anti-Elon Musk ...

The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket. By Kenneth Chang The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sustained a rare but ...

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BEIJING — Beijing Tianbing Technology said Sunday that the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket under development had detached from its launch pad during a test due to structural failure and landed in ...

I've never looked at a rocket engine and thought "well that's dull", but this design makes all the others look positively pedestrian. That's because, rather than the traditional process of countless ...