Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby E3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing.

Fluorite is a ‘console-grade’ graphics engine that can perform well on embedded hardware like the chips in your car. Fluorite is a ‘console-grade’ graphics engine that can perform well on embedded ...

Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...

The high-efficiency Wärtsilä 50SG engine is designed for both primary power and balancing requirements. Credit: Wärtsilä. Technology company Wärtsilä has secured an order to supply flexible engines ...

Marine engines and automotive engines are as different as Steinway pianos and comedy keyboards that operate by squeezing loud, well-tuned hamsters. They may look the same on the outside, but there's a ...

How boxer engines work, why they’re not just “flat” engines, and a 120-year evolution traced from the 1899 Benz to the latest Porsche and Subaru boxers. Boxer engines feature flat, opposing pistons ...

How the Coyote V8 was developed, all the generation updates and their specs, a summary of the supercharged variants, and a few known Coyote problems. The Ford Coyote engine is a modern, naturally ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Stirling engines, which have been around for centuries, leverage temperature differentials in a gas to do light mechanical work. A new study ...

Researchers from China’s Institute of Engineering Thermophysics have reportedly built and tested a new “adaptive cycle engine” (ACE). This is a type of next-generation jet engine that can change how ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...