NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully ...
A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...
A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...
But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity ...
The NASA mission, called STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution), will try to hunt down more details about this ...
Credit: NASA The team has started assembling the honeycomb panels for the aircraft's main body, completed a series of drop ...
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...
Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...
Yeah, that's really what it looks like. The post NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars ...
Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically ...
A nearby “super-Earth” is giving scientists a rare look at the bare surface of a distant world, and it’s far from Earth-like.