Next-generation rockets are transforming space exploration with reusable systems, heavy payloads, and deep space mission ...
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system.
On February 24, 2026, inside a specialized vacuum chamber at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers ...
Fusion engine fires plasma in UK test, marking a key step toward faster space travel and next generation rocket propulsion ...
UK-based Pulsar Fusion claims a world-first by generating 'first plasma' inside its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket prototype, demonstrated live at Jeff Bezos' MARS Conference. While far from a ...
Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.