Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, announced today that America’s only staged combustion liquid rocket booster engine currently in development achieved an important milestone July 12 at NASA’s Stennis ...

It's important to keep in mind that the combustion process occurs in a very brief period of time. Due to a variety of conditions that include mixture density, homogeneity, temperature, fuel ...

Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are in the headlines at the moment, but the traditional internal combustion engine isn’t about to burn its last, writes Farah Alkhalisi. We talk to four ...

NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been the mechanism of choice for vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Across all configurations, the principle is the same: a mix of fuel ...

YouTuber Integzaa’s latest video gives us a neat look inside the combustion chamber of a four-stroke engine, using a transparent cylinder to show us how the piston moves within it to create internal ...

We've seen many engine configurations come and go, with some being more noteworthy than others and some being just outrageous. Honda attempted to modify the shapes of the pistons used in its engine, ...

Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card. A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are reasons ...

Making a new engine while the world’s rushing to switch to electric vehicles only? Mazda said, “why not?” There’s a new innovator in town and it wants you to pay attention. Mazda’s SkyActiv-X engines ...