One of Blue Origin's powerful BE-4 rocket engines suffered a dramatic failure during testing last month, according to CNBC. The BE-4 — the engine that will power Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could build a space agency around.

We could all probably draw a rough sketch of a booster rocket and its engine if needed. You know, a giant pointy metal cylinder tapering into a spire at the top end and a bell-like shape at the bottom ...

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...

Blue Origin has experienced a setback as it works to produce high-thrust BE-4 rocket engines. While testing a BE-4 engine late last month, the thruster exploded in dramatic fashion. Blue Origin did ...

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3D printing for rocket engines is making a lot of headlines lately. In the last few weeks, we've told you about Aerojet Rocketdyne building and hot-firing a 3D-printed rocket engine and NASA's ...

Countdown the best model rockets currently available this Black Friday as we look at replica, STEM and Estes models suitable for all ages and budgets.

I don't know if you know this, but space is really freaking big. So to get there, we need to turn to some pretty enormous machines. The rockets that shoot satellites, astronauts and other craft into ...

Out of all humankind's amazing feats, perhaps nothing is more impressive than our ability to launch into outer space. Though the first-ever space flight occurred in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched ...