From chipmaking breakthrough to a STEM crisis in China’s universities, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science ...

By type, hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) dominate with a 54% market share, owing to their stealth, speed, and unpredictable ...

China's Latest Hypersonic Missile Morphs At Mach 5. China is touting a shape-shifting hypersonic missile as a leap in strike ...

Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down ...

The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a speed of Mach 23 and a range of 10,000km – the "old man" ...

Chemical processes and multiscale modeling approaches have become vital to the advancement of thermal protection systems (TPS) designed for supersonic and ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is envisioned as a Mach-6, air-breathing ISR platform—but could it strike? -Hypersonic speed complicates ...

For decades, Western aerospace experts maintained that manoeuvrability declines sharply as velocity increases, with hypersonic vehicles inherently limited to fixed trajectories. But China’s reported ...

China has unveiled a prototype hypersonic missile that can “shapeshift” mid-flight at speeds over Mach 5, using retractable ...

Chinese scientists have reportedly developed a new prototype “morphing” hypersonic vehicle that can fly faster than Mach 5 (6 ...

Japanese cargo spacecraft HTV-X is on a resupply mission at the ISS, and it will later be used to monitor an HGV with ...