In addition to testing reusable rockets, SpaceX is also coming up with innovative ideas that could affect our everyday lives here on the ground. The company recently held a competition where teams ...

Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has won the first stage of the SpaceX Hyperloop design competition, which was held at Texas A&M University in College ...

Submitted by Arrow Electronics, Inc. A team of MIT students has captured the 2020 Edison Gold Award for its Hyperloop II electric hovercraft. The team was named the top entry in the category of ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — MIT student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk’s idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.

Hyperloop technology is still at a relatively early stage of development, and no one knows just what it will be like to zoom through a long, sealed tube at speeds of several hundred miles per hour.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO famously told the world about his super-fast, inter-city, train-in-a-tube concept, Hyperloop—then said that other people should build it. Fair enough: he is a busy guy. But he ...

Imagine traveling the length of the United Kingdom—from London to Edinburgh, 400-plus miles—in under an hour. A journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco would take less than 30 minutes (five hours ...