Michael Belfiore

A vertical-takeoff concept commercial plane could get you in the air faster

Carrier craft for SpaceShipTwo makes its debut in Mojave California

It's official—the company that brokered the first tourist flights to the International Space Station is now a major world player in manned spaceflight

With debate raging on whether biofuels are robbing the world's hungry of food, scientists and engineers at the first annual BioMass conference in Minneapolis say it ain't so

A maverick group of engineers and scientists at the University of North Dakota's Energy & Environmental Research Center looks beyond corn and other food crops for biofuel production

The Pentagon agency that gave us the Internet throws a birthday party in Washington

Introducing the Lynx, a two-seat rocket built for space tourism

This is a test by Michael Belfiore of the Drupalling system

This hydrogen-burning hypersonic airliner could fly more than twice as fast as the 1,350mph Concorde--and its passengers would travel absolutely guilt-free

Recent breakthroughs in scramjet engines could mean two-hour flights from New York to Tokyo. They could also mean missiles capable of striking any continent in a moment's notice. No wonder the race to develop them is as fierce as ever