NASA is working on a lithium-plasma electric thruster that uses roughly 90% less fuel than chemical rockets. Can this new technology help us colonize Mars?

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 biggest one was in 775, when we know (from carbon-4 isotopes trapped in the rings of ancient trees) that a solar storm 10 ...

NASA says it has successfully tested a high-powered plasma thruster that could eventually reduce Mars travel times from months to far shorter missions. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a ...

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft, developed under the agency’s Quesst mission in partnership with Lockheed ...

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

A new lab experiment is testing a water-free solution for "space laundry" on future Mars missions.

The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s gargantuan rocket launched on Friday evening and ended its journey in the Indian Ocean just over an hour later. By Kenneth Chang Despite some engine failures along the ...

Historic power milestone: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ran a lithium-fed thruster at 120 kilowatts, surpassing all previous U.S. electric propulsion tests. Why lithium matters: Lithium vapor ...

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...

SpaceX scrubbed the test flight of its massive Starship rocket on Thursday, a day after the company filed its IPO prospectus. The 12th test flight, which was pushed to Friday, will debut a third ...

The tallest rocket ever built is now standing on its launch pad ahead of its next mission. SpaceX is about to debut Version 3 (V3) of its giant Starship rocket, which is poised to launch on the ...