Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

3D printing can be used to build with all kinds of materials – even those that go 'boom.' kynny/iStock via Getty Images Imagine you’re driving to work on a rainy day, when a distracted, reckless ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the mid-1960s, NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, outside of ...

Nearly five years after COVID-19 ground the world to a halt, the global supply chain still hasn’t fully recovered. Specialty industries like space travel were particularly hard hit, given the ...

Relativity Space aims to not only 3D print its rocket engines but also nearly all of the booster itself. And now it has raised a considerable amount of money for a company with just 17 employees. On ...

Relativity is creating the first autonomous rocket factory. Their long-term goal is the 3D printing the first rocket made from Mars. Complete printing of our rocket, Terran 1, reduces vehicle part ...

Liquefied natural gas, which is a commercially available form of methane, could have several advantages as a rocket fuel. Blue Origin has said its wide availability and low cost would enable an ...

If you’re ever flying into LAX and have the left side window seat, just a few minutes before landing, look out the window. You’ll see a small airport just below you and what appears at first glance to ...

A new space race is in the works, thanks to 3-D printing. This time around, it’s not about large government agencies vying to blast human astronauts into uncharted territory. Instead, today’s ...

SpaceX is printing rocket parts, including the thrust chamber on the engines for its Dragon V2 spacecraft, which it hopes will one day deliver NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The ...

As a child, Tim Ellis tossed away the printed instructions that came with the 200 or so Lego sets he begged his parents to buy, in favor of creating his own sleek spaceship designs. Today, his right ...