Rosalind Franklin Mars rover received its first braking engines from NASA following ESA’s 347th Council meeting, advancing the mission toward a late-2028 launch. The throttleable descent engines will ...

NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged ...

Matter-antimatter annihilations produce about 10 billion times more energy per unit mass than chemical combustion (which ...

A new report from two MIT researchers attempts to dig into the specifics of a shadowy Russian weapons program they call ...

The community is taking maneuver more seriously — and that shift is overdue. But the maneuver conversation still carries a blind spot: Propulsion is treated too generically. Whether a spacecraft can ...

Buckle up, kiddos, we're goin' to Mars! Okay, so no one is actually going to Mars anytime soon and SpaceX's Starship rocket keeps exploding. However, extra-long-distance space travel is inching closer ...

The Mandalorian & Grogu arrived at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on May 14, 2026 — the night before NASA's Psyche spacecraft executed a gravity-assist flyby of Mars using a xenon-fueled ion ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

On February 24, 2026, inside a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers ignited a thruster that burned lithium metal vapor and reached 120 kilowatts of ...

For decades, the idea of using lithium as a spacecraft propellant existed mainly as a tantalizing theoretical option. The complexity of handling the metal, combined with the historical dominance of ...

In the epic Ramayana, Ravana's Pushpaka Vimana—a golden flying chariot—defied gravity without fuel, harnessing sunlight, mercury plasma, and gold catalysts. This wasn't fantasy; ancient Sanskrit texts ...