Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket. Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General ...

In the 1980s, Formula One had almost no fuel restrictions, and engineers took full advantage. Teams ran engines on fuel mixtures closer to rocket fuel than petrol, producing over 1,400 horsepower from ...

Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country’s Tiangong space station using a new process dubbed “artificial photosynthesis.” As the South China Morning Post reports, ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day ...

Have we discovered the ideal source of energy? A recent study in Nature describes a newly synthesized chemical called hexanitrogen. Containing no carbon, it produces zero greenhouse emissions and ...

A new multimillion-dollar economic development investment is coming to Oklahoma. Firehawk is a Texas-based company that manufactures rocket fuel. The company is investing $22 million in a facility ...

Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully produced ...

Usually when an alchemist shows up promising to turn rocks into gold, you should run the other way. Sure, rocket fuel isn’t gold, but on the moon it’s worth more than its weight in the yellow stuff.

On the Laboratory platform between Sunstone Island and Rosilit Bay, you find the mad scientist Dr Crookspine working away on his latest invention. Dr Crookspine is a brilliant inventor, capable of ...

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