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 ...

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?

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 ...

Record power milestone: NASA's JPL achieved 120 kW output in a lithium-fed plasma thruster, the highest U.S. test for this propulsion type. Mars mission potential: The engine could reduce Mars travel ...

Dinan left school at sixteen, ran a series of businesses through his twenties and thirties, and eventually sold a UK consumer ...

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars ...

The scientists supposedly all had access to sensitive government research, and the nature of their work has led to speculation that their cases might all be connected.

A Texas-based company is accelerating the production of spacecraft with expanded campus and innovation ...

NASA announced plans March 24 to develop Space Reactor 1 (SR-1) Freedom, a mission to Mars demonstrating nuclear electric propulsion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is working on a streamlined ...

According to the US Department of Energy, nuclear thermal propulsion can reduce travel times to Mars by up to 25% and, more importantly, limit a crew’s exposure to cosmic radiation. It would also ...