A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves assembling a football-field-sized spacecraft in orbit using advanced robotics.

Cui is exploring ways to improve electric ... to Mars and beyond. However, the plume emitted by the thrusters isn’t just exhaust — it’s the lifeline of the entire propulsion system.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will spend around 45 days in transit to the Moon before landing on the lunar surface in early March.

Faster, farther, and more efficiently — that’s the mission driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint ... One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor to generate electricity that ionizes, or ...

But if we are to expand humankind's firsthand reach into the solar system beyond the Moon, we need new, better, and more effective means of propulsion ... going to head for Mars and elsewhere ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...