Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day ...

The new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...

Since its foundation in 1959, the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion has been the most important European research and testing facility for liquid-chemical rocket engines. Our mission is to make the ...

A conceptual laser thermal propulsion space mission to Mars ... would be launched out of the atmosphere on a conventional chemical rocket, whereupon it would separate and reveal a large inflatable ...

How was the rocket that launched the Curiosity Rover to Mars different from the one that took Neil Armstrong to the moon? Join Dr. Larry de Quay of NASA as he explains the physics and chemical ...

NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear propulsion as a faster space travel alternative. Estimates suggest the method could fly a spacecraft to Mars in approximately a month, ...