When Steve Kelly wrote his deep-dive on Pontiac's new experimental dual-overhead-cam Hemi V-8 for the October 1970 issue of HOT ROD magazine (actually two engines!), performance was a moving target.

Allegedly capable of spitting out over 600 naturally aspirated horses, this experimental big-block V8 never got a proper chance to shine but still became an American engineering legend. During the ...

The propellant-burning space rockets of today, which could send the first humans to Mars this decade, could start to look outdated thanks to promising new research. A team at the University of ...

DARPA's Phantom Express experimental spaceplane has taken a step closer to flight with Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR-22 booster rocket engine successfully completing 10 test firings in 240 hours. Based on ...

At the height of the muscle car craze, the engineering wizards at Oldsmobile created a "Frankensteinesque" big-block V8 with four valves per cylinder that could've become the most iconic American high ...

Venus Aerospace's rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). Houston, Texas-based Venus Aerospace, a hypersonics pioneer aimed at developing reusable hypersonic flight platforms, recently achieved one ...

If I had to pick one time in history to be an automotive engineer, I'd have to pick the mid-to-late 1930s. Well, as a Jew, there'd be some pretty serious trade-offs about that era, of course, but as ...

At this point, it should be pretty obvious that the latest mid-engine Corvette C8 is a massive departure from the seven generations that came before it. Indeed, moving the engine behind the cabin is ...

We’ve been talking about going to Mars for decades, but we haven’t yet cracked how to get people there and back safely and in a reasonable amount of time. The problem is one of distance and the ...

Professor Jeremy Munday developed an experimental engine that harvests the temperature difference between Earth and deep space at night.

The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they don’t care about planes. The ‘Queen of the Skies’ might have ended ...

A Merlin rocket engine exploded Sunday at SpaceX's test facilities in Central Texas. According to the company, no one was injured during the mishap, which damaged two bays in a Merlin engine test ...