Mystery white plume streaks US sky after China dumps rocket fuel - Astronomers say new methane-powered Chinese rocket likely behind giant white streak ...

Held March 29-30, the competition brought together 20 college teams from across the United States to rural Kansas for a showcase of high-powered rocketry. CU in Space had spent months designing, ...

Such strange light shows have been a known ... referring to the thin atmosphere that exists at high altitudes and in Earth’s orbit. When a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida last ...

Penn Aerospace Club’s High Powered Rocketry competed in the Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico last month. (Photo by Penn Aerospace Club) Penn Aerospace Club’s High Powered Rocketry team represented ...

With funding from the UK Space Agency, British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket ... combines very light elements like hydrogen into heavier ones, using high temperature ...

A missile could go farther. And a rocket-powered aircraft could get wings and landing gear to “finally make a high-speed ...

A mysterious spiraling blue light illuminated the night skies over ... and appears to have been created by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster falling back toward Earth, according to experts.

It requires designing, building and flying a high power rocket carrying a scientific or engineering payload. The program, based out of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Huntsville ...

The integrated nuclear power and propulsion system brings performance benefits, including commonality in high-temperature heat rejection and direct coupling of the reactor power to the VASIMR ...