For over a century, rocket propulsion has followed a simple principle; burn fuel, expel it backward, and Newton's third law ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding several studies that will explore the use of nuclear propulsion for deep space exploration. Propulsion in space currently is conducted using a storage ...

Voyager Technologies on Monday said it has acquired ExoTerra Resource in a deal that gives it capabilities in compact ...

Illustration of a human Mars mission concept enabled by nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP). An NTP-powered high performance fission reactor system will significantly reduce the travel time and radiation ...

An extrapolation technique aims to address the gap between Hall effect thruster performance in space and in laboratory ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace announced Oct. 22 that Lockheed Martin Ventures has taken a strategic ...

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Electric spacecraft propulsion system startup Morpheus Space Inc. said today it has raised $28 million in a fresh round of funding. The Series A round was led by the space-exclusive venture capital ...

Today, there is a new video interview of the lead researcher at Exodus Technologies who are making a radical new propellantless propulsion system. They claim they can produce over 1G of thrust for a ...

Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion ...

PASADENA, Calif. - An estimated 550 workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena learned of their fate Tuesday. JPL is federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech. JPL Director Dave ...