NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

Houston-based startup Venus Aerospace has completed the first-ever test flight of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) in the United States. The launch took place on Wednesday (May 14) from ...

The deal includes Aerojet Rocketdyne RL-10 rocket engines. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today/USA Today Network/Reuters) Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies struck a deal to sell a controlling interest ...

When a American-made reusable aircraft broke the hypersonic barrier for the first time in nearly 60-years this past December, it was not one of the aerospace industry’s prime engine makers, but a ...

In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit ...

Sassie Duggleby, co-founder and chief executive of Venus Aerospace (right) speaks at Axios "Future of Defense" conference. Credit: Axios WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace ...

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 ...

The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the Mississippi horizon, it was a proof point that the agency’s heavy-lift strategy ...