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 ...

While classic combustion in rocket engines takes place at constant pressure or even with a slight loss of pressure, the pressure increases significantly during detonation. A rocket engine based on ...

has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine relies on an entirely different method of combustion, with the aim to ...