A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, changed military landscape nearly overnight in the U.S.

What physical processes govern the movement of microscopic structures capable of interacting with their environment? The ...

Aurora Labs has moved closer to commercial propulsion delivery and expanded its defence pipeline during the March 2026 ...

Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of doing so, are great for providing lots of force but are extraordinarily ...

There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn far away. A ...

DARPA believes that nuclear-powered propulsion could enable rapid maneuver in space — a capability that is difficult to achieve with current electric and chemical propulsion systems. (Defense Advanced ...

If there’s one hard-to-ignore annoyance with drones is noise pollution, with these otherwise extremely useful aircraft being quite loud due to their propellers. This Florida-based startup plans to ...

The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, changed military landscape nearly overnight in the U.S.