American space agency NASA awarded a NIAC grant to ThinkOrbital for a study into building a shipyard in space using ...

There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. It’s about gravity – something all of us experience every moment of every day. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with its Crew Dragon capsule ...

A rocket launching from a planet bigger than Earth would need to achieve a higher escape speed. For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow ...