Whether in the real world, depicted in cartoons, or in a hobbyist's back yard, rockets always seem to have fins. Or if not fins, at least some other kind of protrusions along the outside -- they're ...

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Because of the specialized nature of submarines, a distinct military strategy called anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, was created to counter them. Its primary objective is to defend ships and allied ...

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 ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half. But not ...