Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially habitable planet, as well as its atmosphere, and even possibly some of its ...

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.” ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons.

NASA is preparing a technology that could redefine humanity’s future in space: a nuclear-powered rocket. According to the ...

Dr A. E. Muthunayagam, awarded the Padma Shri 2026, is a pioneering space scientist and the founding Director of ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. An IISc and Purdue alumnus, he played a key ...

Oftentimes, we hear the phrase "Well, it's not rocket science," but for this group of Purdue University students, it actually ...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index gives up gains made Wednesday after a surprise January jobs report. Astera and ...

Malina was also a pacifist and anti-fascist, a card-carrying member of the Communist party, and a painter and pioneer in the field of kinetic art – where motion, be it mechanically or naturally ...

NASA has officially started the clock on one of the most important milestones remaining before the Artemis 2 mission.

NASA's wet dress rehearsal did not go as smoothly as planned. As a result, the Artemis II launch is now no earlier than March ...

American space agency NASA says it fixed the problem that caused a hydrogen leak during the first wet dress rehearsal of the ...

Race 2 Space (R2S) is an international competition giving undergraduate students the chance to design, build, and hot-fire their own rocket engines. Since 2023, 58 teams have completed around 100 ...