OGDEN, Utah — A controlled detonation was the cause of a loud boom that alarmed many residents in northern Utah on Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service confirmed the detonation on the west ...

Detonation, on the other hand, is as chaotic and destructive as it sounds. It's how most bombs work; you take an explosive fuel and hit it with a jolt of energy, and the chemical bonds holding each ...

The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine combustor during a 251-second hot fire test in fall 2023. Photo: NASA NASA just put its new propulsion system to the test, powering a 3D-printed rotating ...

A Chinese commercial aerospace company conducted the first test flight of a detonation ramjet engine on Tuesday, designed for an aircraft it says will be able to take passengers from Beijing to New ...

Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone. The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín aircraft at 12,000 feet and flew under the ...

The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Russian scientists have conducted the world’s first successful tests on what they claim is ‘the future of space travel’ – and it runs on clean fuel. The Russian Advanced Research Foundation has ...

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