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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by NASA aerospace engineering, this project features a plasma thruster, designed to maximize efficiency and increase the voltage output. For that, Maker created a homemade ionic plasma ...

Part two of a series on the future of space exploration. We will explore exotic methods of propulsion that could propel us to neighboring star systems and beyond. What will these future propulsion ...

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 ...

To conserve this power, NASA operators turned off Voyager 2's plasma science experiment in October 2024. The experiment aimed to measure how much plasma flows past it and in what direction. The ...

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 ...

“We’ve recently commissioned not one, but two of the largest space propulsion testing chambers ... Princeton Satellite Systems to predict how plasma behaves under electromagnetic confinement.

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California ... Last October, to conserve energy, the project turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument, which measures ...