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

Despite budget cuts, the White House just gave NASA a high-stakes nuclear mission. Find out why a lunar reactor is crucial ...

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

NASA has plans for a giant leap in its method of space travel, beginning with a nuclear-powered mission to Mars that's ...

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

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, over 25 times more powerful than current spaceflight electric thrusters. The ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not ...

NASA has made the difficult decision to shut off another instrument on Voyager 1. Here's what's next for the furthest manmade ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. And it is just the beginning. In a speech at a space policy event on Tuesday, NASA chief Jared ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.