A team of engineers in the United Kingdom has developed a rocket capable of traveling beyond Earth's atmosphere while consuming itself for fuel before burning up completely. The rocket was built with ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while remaining stable until intentionally ignited. Its power comes from an ...

If a new rocket developed by University of Glasgow engineers seems to get smaller as it burns, your eyes aren't playing tricks. It is. The new Ouroborous-3 (sic) rocket engine conserves fuel by eating ...

MnB₂ releases about 20% more energy per unit weight and is roughly 2.5 times as energy-dense as aluminum powder [2], the standard metal fuel in today’s solid rocket boosters. This means rockets could ...

Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.

Photo: NASA (Outer Image)/ compound image by autoevolution (Inner Image) Chemical fuel is nasty stuff to squishy, vulnerable flesh sacks called humans, from the noxious, flammable vapor of gasoline to ...