has announced investments from both Boeing and Rolls-Royce. REL, based at Culham in Oxfordshire, is working on a propulsion system that is part jet engine, part rocket engine. The company believes ...

Four years overdue, delayed by problems at Blue Origin getting the engine ready ... But to many other space watchers, rocket parts falling off a Boeing rocket midflight raised some troubling ...

This would have seen an engine on either wing with another mounted on the tail, as normal in such planes. The design would have been similar to that of the narrow-body Boeing 727, which was also a ...

The aircraft’s powerful GE-9X engines are the largest ever built. At 11 feet and 2 inches, each front fan is larger in diameter than the fuselage of a Boeing 737. Each engine weighs 11 tons.

Boeing has been at the center of a safety scandal for years now, starting with two deadly 737 Max crashes just five months ...

Hours earlier, rival space company SpaceX conducted the first successful full test flight of its Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket. NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX to build ...