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

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – This week, NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly known as the Northern Lights.

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

NASA is working on a nuclear electric propulsion system that would ... something that massive into the narrow confines of a rocket. Even fully compacted, the radiator would be too big and unwieldy.

2025年1月13日，南极熊获悉，发射服务和太空系统的全球领导者Rocket Lab USA(Nasdaq: RKLB)公司已被 NASA 选中，通过Rocket Lab 现有的 VADR（专用和共乘的冒险 ...

Credit: Christopher Perry/NASA/Tribune News Service via Getty Images NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras to help study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan ...

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky. NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras to help ...

America has a new low-cost space services provider. NASA wants to go to Mars again -- and this time, bring back rocks. With a plan that America's premier space agency describes as its "most ...

Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, which will carry NASA science-technology demonstrations and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar ...

Credit: Rocket Lab ORLANDO, Fla. — Rocket Lab is asking the incoming administration to reconsider NASA’s plans for Mars Sample Return (MSR), arguing it can offer an approach that is faster and ...

which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander would return the samples to NASA and the European Space Agency for study.

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.