The Type 076 vessel is the world's first amphibious warship equipped with an electromagnetic catapult for launching aircraft.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s next-generation amphibious assault flattop departed Friday from Shanghai, China, for its ...

Many believe that it's humanity's destiny to venture out into the unknown and settle on distant worlds. There's only one dilemma: How do we get there? A $10,000 competition launched earlier this month ...

Japanese scientists are developing advanced typhoon-powered generation vessels capable of harnessing electricity from intense ...

An international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners called Project Hyperion has launched a design ...

As SpaceX prepares for a possible Jan. 10 launch of its Starship rocket, Elon Musk's company says it's made special improvements in time for the seventh flight test out of South Texas. "The upcoming ...

Human technology has allowed us to extend the scope of our curiosity beyond the confines of our home world and into the solar system. But it's not hard to imagine that one day humans will want to ...

Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, is awarded a $590,801,245 fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for low rate initial production of 13 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band ...

Faster-than-light travel is impossible according to our current understanding of physics. Wormholes are theoretically possible but require unstable, exotic matter to stabilize. Generation ships are a ...

This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is adapted from Christopher Mason’s book “The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.” “The only barrier to human ...