Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust ...

Rockets that are launching things into space, like satellites or space probes, don’t actually have much trouble getting past the Earth’s atmosphere. Rockets encounter most of the resistance when ...