Picture this: a lad in a rural village in southern Egypt, carrying heavy buckets of water from a well, as clean water didn’t exist at home. A few decades later, that same boy is now me, walking ...

Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country’s Tiangong space station using a new process dubbed “artificial photosynthesis.” As the South China Morning Post reports, ...

The most abundant metal known to man is iron. It's everywhere. Not just on Earth, but in space as well. Astro engineers have just figured out how to use iron – or nearly any metal for that matter – as ...

Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of "artificial photosynthesis." The ...

WASHINGTON – NASA plans to make oxygen – a key ingredient of rocket fuel – on Mars early next decade. Space agency officials Thursday unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover ...

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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 ...

Three teams from four countries have been working tirelessly to create rocket-fueled vehicles that will break the land speed record of 763 mph in 2014. They are looking to far exceed this record with ...