Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

"We're really grateful for the space community and their care at this challenging time — but exploration continues, so we ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The idea behind electric propulsion is that an electric current ionizes (i.e. removes an ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Scientists propose using relativistic electron beams to propel spacecraft, offering a new hope for interstellar travel within ...

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...