Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a prototype for a "self-eating" rocket that gradually consumes itself for ...

The commercialization of space is in full swing right now, and the pace of competitive innovation is so feverish that even agencies like NASA are outsourcing their missions to private names like ...

Engineers at the University of Glasgow have developed a "self-eating" rocket engine, which burns parts of its body for extra fuel, that could alter the landscape of space travel. This "autophagy" ...

UK researchers have designed a self-eating rocket engine that burns its own body for fuel. They hope the design can help curb the worsening junk problem in space. With some of its mass freed up, the ...

A team of engineers in the United Kingdom has developed a rocket capable of traveling beyond Earth's atmosphere while consuming itself for fuel before burning up completely. The rocket was built with ...