NASA has integrated the first RS-25 engine with the core stage of its upcoming super heavy Moon rocket – the Space Launch System (SLS). The engines are refurbished units that were built to power ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

NASA tested a Space Launch System rocket RS-25 engine at the Stennis Space Center. Credit: NASA Stennis Space Center ...

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...

NASA’s latest breakthrough, the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), could revolutionize space travel with up to 5% greater fuel efficiency—an enormous leap for rocket technology. This video explores how ...

3-D printing is already enhancing life here on Earth — by creating prosthetic limbs for children and life-saving bone transplants, among other cool things — but now NASA plans to take 3-D ...

The 260-second engine firing at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi represented the toughest test yet for hardware that’s destined to go on the Space Launch System, NASA’s heavy-lift rocket.

NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the US Defense Department, are once again setting their sights on a type of rocket engine that could be the holy grail for ...

NASA has validated the design of a next-generation rocket engine that could power humanity's next phase of deep space exploration. Last year at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, engineers ...

NASA has pushed forward a revolutionary new rocket technology at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Engineers at the facility fired the 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE ...

The images show engine tests at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, a NASA spokesperson said. The RS-25 is a rocket engine, not a device used to control the weather.

The Space Launch System rocket will be the most powerful ever built, generating a staggering 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff -- 7.2 million pounds from two strap-on solid-fuel booster s ...