Humanity’s plans for deep-space exploration hinge on the ability to use basic resources, such as water, to propel rockets to farther destinations in the solar system. Despite decades of ...

On April 4, 2026, a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane lifted off from Lusong Airport in Zhuzhou, a mid-sized industrial city in China’s Hunan province, and flew for 16 minutes on nothing but compressed ...