A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

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

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in motion a ...

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

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

It’s like “looking at the universe through a set of rainbow-colored glasses,” said deputy project manager Beth Fabinsky of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. To keep the infrared detectors ...

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 ...

However, technical malfunctions delayed their return. Upon approaching the ISS, the Starliner encountered issues, including the shutdown of five thrusters—critical for manoeuvring—and a depletion of ...

Cast ewes reached £400 for Texels from James Erlam, Mid Banks, Lockerbie while rams were topped at £270 for Suffolks from J and MH Brims, Thuster Mains, Wick. Cows peaked at £1642 for a Beef Shorthorn ...

Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved ... and direction of electronically charged atoms called plasma on Voyager 2. Engineers shut down the same instrument ...

But the spacecraft's thrusters malfunctioned, and the duo's roughly weeklong ... And we'll be coming home riding the plasma, ...