Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science fiction, but scientists are racing to develop new, more efficient methods of space travel ...

The upper part, also called Starship or Ship for short, looks like a shiny rocket from science fiction movies of the 1950s, is made of stainless steel with large fins. This is the upper stage that ...

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.

Gentry Lee, the certified Hall of Famer engineer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and distinguished science fiction ...

The rocket was launched from the United States ... "It looked more like a science fiction film – as if aliens were landing." SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has carried out several ...

The team at Psyonix took that risk, and it paid off mightily with this year's surprise hit, Rocket League. Part demolition derby, part science fiction and part soccer, Rocket League is the most ...