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

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Galileo, NASA scientists look to take the next step in understanding auroras.

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

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.

Assembly of the Artemis II moon rocket has reached its latest milestone with the stacking of the twin boosters' right forward ...

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 ...

One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric ... previous ideas called for fitting the entire nuclear electric radiator system under a rocket fairing, or nose cone, which covers and protects ...

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 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in support of NASA’s future Artemis landing crews. The Blue Ghost and ...