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

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the ...

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

American space agency NASA announced the first major test of a new lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that could ...

NASA has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at record 120-kilowatt power levels, a milestone for nuclear electric propulsion. The technology could cut Mars transit times ...

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

NASA has quietly taken a major step toward crewed missions to Mars by selecting four people to live and work in a sealed, 3D-printed habitat for 378 days. The mission is designed to mimic the ...

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

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

A giant experimental rocket built by Elon Musk's SpaceX was due to shoot up to nearly eight miles above the company's testing facilities in South Texas on Tuesday, in what would have been the highest ...