As global warming threatens the future of military and commercial aviation, a Chinese team of researchers with a vision to ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully ...

NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars.

Plasma jet engines promise a future of fuel-free, electrically driven flight, but the technology faces a stubborn obstacle that no amount of enthusiasm can wish away. Ionizing air to generate thrust ...

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you'll ever take. It features a newly christened electric ...

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 ...

NASA's lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, tested at 120 kilowatts, promises faster Mars missions by reducing travel ...

NASA's thruster is an MPD thruster, which uses electric currents and magnetic fields to propel lithium plasma away from the ...

NASA has completed a new series of tests on a high-power plasma engine fueled by liquid lithium, reaching record performance ...

Specialists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Southern ...

A team of international astrophysicists have uncovered new insights into the mystery behind the differences in the appearances of extragalactic jets emerging from the environments of supermassive ...

Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.