For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than those currently in use.

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 ...

NASA has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster at record power levels of 120 kilowatts, 25 times stronger than the Psyche mission's electric thruster. Conducted at the ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

NASA has made the difficult decision to shut off another instrument on Voyager 1. Here's what's next for the furthest manmade ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to ...

Yeah, that's really what it looks like. The post NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. And it is just the beginning. In a speech at a space policy event on Tuesday, NASA chief Jared ...