Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...

YOU CAN’T APPRECIATE ART. JUST ANOTHER DAY AT WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, WHERE STUDENTS AND PLANES WALK THE QUAD. BIG LEFT TURN, BOTH MOVING TOWARD THE CHALLENGES AHEAD. IT’S OKAY. WE LEARN FROM ...

Recent advancements in materials science have introduced a groundbreaking alloy that promises to make rockets reusable up to 100 times. This innovation could revolutionize the aerospace industry by ...

Every other week, it seems, a new Chinese launch company pops up with a rocket design and a plan to reach orbit within a few years. For a long time, the majority of these companies revealed designs ...

Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different. Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science ...