NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the world’s premier centers for robotic space exploration, is laying off about 325 people, or roughly 5 percent of the workforce, laboratory director ...

If an athlete ate flatulence-inducing foods before a race, they might have an advantage not due to propulsion, but by clearing away the competition. However, eating such foods probably wouldn’t ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

"The only thing we can say is, we took the bull by the horns, accepting the limitations in engine performance, to show jet propulsion was conceivable for naval operations," Brown said in a 2015 ...

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and AeroVironment—who helped build the helicopter—have been investigating the cause of the crash ever since and have now ...

After adding Pixel Screenshots “Save” integration, Circle to Search is updating its shimmer animation to use the four Google colors. Since the January launch, triggering Circle to Search has ...

This dramatic volcanism was first identified in 1979 by scientist Linda Morabito, then at NASA's Jet Propulsion-Laboratory, in an image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. "Since Morabito's ...

Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of doing so, are great for providing lots of force but are extraordinarily ...

LOS ANGELES — The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation after a private jet carrying the Gonzaga University men’s basketball team nearly crossed a runway as another ...

Forward-looking: Scientists have long envisioned nuclear electric propulsion as a transformative technology for unlocking the potential of solar system exploration. Now, two companies making ...

For much of the 1960s, Mays was baseball’s highest-paid player; in 1970, his salary was $135,000, or about $1.1 million today ...

The former NASA astronaut who nearly collided with a pair of metallic orbs while flying his plane remains befuddled by the mysterious objects, revealing to The Post they showed “no visible means ...