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

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would ...

XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

A space propulsion start-up has secured $10.5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its “next generation” work. Oxfordshire-based Magdrive, founded in 2019 by mechanical engineer ...

while electric propulsion (EP) is very efficient but generates low thrust. Magdrive has developed an EP system that uses solid metal propellant to generate high-energy plasma, with the same high ...

a plasma physicist and pulsed power electronics engineer. The funding will enable Magdrive to continue research and development for its innovative high-thrust electric propulsion systems for all sizes ...