Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

Every night, the sky does something invisible and enormous. Heat escapes from Earth’s surface upward through the atmosphere and out into the cold of space. This is a process as old as the planet ...

Engineers at UC Davis have built a remarkable device that creates power at night by tapping into something we rarely think about: the vast cold of outer space. Using a special type of Stirling engine, ...

Construction is officially underway on Tulsa’s Space Test Center, a project leaders say will strengthen Oklahoma’s growing aerospace industry. Crews have broken ground on the facility next to Tulsa ...

Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...

This is an After Effects tutorial. How to create an Epic Space Scene with Nebula. The two main effects used in this tutorial are Turbulent Noise and Star Burst. In addition to the effects available in ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – It took emergency crews nearly an hour to pull Jenny Hautmann from the wreckage of her crushed car. Four years and 18 surgeries later, the spaceflight photographer is finally ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Stirling engines, which have been around for centuries, leverage temperature differentials in a gas to do light mechanical work. A new study ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have engineered a revolutionary engine that utilizes the cold of space to generate power. This innovative device, operating without traditional fuels, draws ...

This engine won't be fueling interstellar missions, but still finds an unexpected way to use deep space energy to generate power. Reading time 3 minutes Deep space may provide hidden sources of energy ...

There was a time when Russia and the United States were in a highly competitive race to the moon. But the 1960s came and went, with America emerging as the pioneer of space travel. The U.S. is still ...

Running a day late, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab’s ...