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 ...

NASA aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and Mars through learnings of Artemis II.

Russian engineers are betting that a radically different rocket engine can compress the long slog to Mars into something closer to an interplanetary commute. Their new plasma propulsion prototype, ...

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

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.” ...

Angular and distinctly space-age in appearance, the vast Valkyrie was perhaps the most impressive aircraft ever flown.

Gen. Jason Bartolomei, the AFRL commander, came out to visit just before I retired. He said, “You guys are strategically ...

BWX Technology's new digital center in Melbourne is the $3.2 billion company's first Florida location, fitting for ...

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

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

The project is led by NASA's Space Nuclear Propulsion Office as part of the DRACO nuclear rocket program. Reactor Test Campaign According to NASA, engineers conducted more than 100 cold-flow tests at ...