This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and ...

An engineer who once worked with NASA says he has built a machine that can push against gravity without burning a drop of ...

Dr. Campbell Carter, an aerospace systems engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has been honored with the 2017 American ...

WASHINGTON — Orion Propulsion Inc., a Huntsville, Ala.-based company founded nearly five years ago by the lead propulsion engineer for the Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne suborbital space plane, ...

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will have more than 8 million pounds of thrust, equal to the horsepower produced in 160,000 Corvette engines, and launch 70 metric tons into space. And that’s just ...

Electrek has learned of yet another important hire at electric car startup Faraday Future (FF). The company has been successful in convincing an impressive number of auto executives to join the effort ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

While many of our interviewees had “front office” jobs in the space program—pilots, astronauts, flight controllers—some of the most interesting interview bits came from the pure engineers. That ...

Who are you, what is your job role and what do you do? My name’s Jimara and I’m currently a Graduate Spacecraft Propulsion Engineer at Airbus. Being part of the propulsion team means that I get to ...

So what happened when an uncrewed Russian spacecraft inadvertently fired its thrusters sending the International Space Station tumbling 1½ times about 227 miles above the Earth? One Durango business, ...