UK's Pulsar Fusion reveals Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket promising to cut Mars travel time in half. Could this be the ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

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

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

That's why NASA opts for gases like xenon for more efficient propulsion. This DIY high-voltage plasma generator is not quite ready to generate high thrusts but it's a fascinating experiment in ion ...

a nuclear thermal rocket engine developed from 1965 through the 1980s. These reactors were intended to become part of a Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system, where heat generated by the slow ...

Advanced Collaboration Leads to Hydrogen Engine Breakthrough Cummins, in collaboration with key tech leaders like Johnson ...

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 ...