For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, pictured here on February 1, are currently on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy ...

Chemical fuel is nasty stuff to squishy, vulnerable flesh sacks called humans, from the noxious, flammable vapor of gasoline to the pungent stench of diesel that permeates for hundreds of yards in ...

The idea of using in-situ resources, such as water, on the surface of distant worlds to synthesize rocket fuel has been around for many decades. For many years, for instance, scientists have suggested ...

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...

If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a history-making, 10-day slingshot trip around the moon. Instead, NASA’s engineers have been grappling ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a history-making, 10-day slingshot trip around the moon. Instead, NASA's engineers ...