Scientists are creating a "self-eating" spacecraft which uses its own rocket as fuel for its engine. A Leicester-based firm is working to create the world's first "autophage engine", allowing the ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...