While Nasa’s budgetary struggle continues, the red planet may be a step closer for China after it unveiled a powerful new ...

The research team is working on new materials and cooling systems to counteract these effects and make the engine long-lasting under prolonged use. A cleaner, greener future powered by plasma ...

Russian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion system that could change space travel. The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW high-thrust magnetoplasmadynamic thruster they tested is poised to pave the way ...

Russia has introduced a plasma electric rocket engine ... Meanwhile, Italy and the EU are exploring similar propulsion methods. Experts predict these engines will be key to future space missions.

The engine is a plasma propulsion system, working by ionizing the propellant to create plasma, which is then accelerated by an electromagnetic field to form a high-speed particle stream ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...