While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

There's a lot of trash in outer space, and there isn't really a good plan on how to dispose of it, but one scientist thinks ...

We’ve been talking about going to Mars for decades, but we haven’t yet cracked how to get people there and back safely and in a reasonable amount of time. The problem is one of distance and the ...

Hopefully for Takahashi, the applications of a cusp-type magnetic field could increase the power of his plasma engine by essentially containing both the plasma and the direction of the thrust. When ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...

The world’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially for transportation, has left a deep mark on both the planet and public health. Burning these fuels releases a flood of greenhouse gases, which ...

A former astronaut’s Houston-based company got a boost for its alternative rocket propulsion system and disclosed its flight-readiness timeline.

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

The approval with Pratt & Whitney follows ITP Aero being added to the geared turbofan (GTF) engine repair network in June.

"Seventy-six percent of the objects in the top 50 were deposited last century, and 88 percent of the objects are rocket ...