The development of the engine is expected to make interplanetary trips much faster and expand humanity's access to worlds ...

Russian scientists have announced the development of a plasma-powered rocket engine that could potentially reach Mars within ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Rosatom scientists have announced the development of a plasma electric rocket engine that they claim could send spacecraft to ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

BEIJING -- Delivery of China's liquid oxygen kerosene engine, named Liqing-2, has been completed, its developer CAS Space ...

While rocket launches will remain the realm of energetic chemical-based rockets, some spacecraft have swapped to more efficient, low-thrust forms of propulsion like the ion engine. For instance ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited debut launch of the New Glenn rocket, a super-heavy lift vehicle developed ...

and Huntsville, Ala. The engines are the BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4 and BE-7. Each rocket has a different function: (Photo: Blue Origin New Glenn) The BE-3PM is designed to thrust the rocket up but also ...