Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

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

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

A powerful new propulsion test by NASA signals a major shift in how humans could reach Mars, as engineers successfully fired ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...