A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

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

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA administrator, made a flurry of announcements from the agency’s headquarters in ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

Nuclear spaceship is now on NASA’s actual roadmap with a launch target before the end of the decade. The agency just unveiled plans for SR-1 (Space Reactor-1 Freedom), a nuclear-powered spacecraft ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today introduced a new electric satellite thruster designed for high-volume ...

Stuttgart, Germany – Marc. 17, 2026 – ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to ...

A team of Texas A&M engineering students are working on a technology called optical propulsion, which could cut travel time ...

Rocket Lab (NasdaqCM:RKLB) has introduced its Gauss high volume electric satellite thruster. The company is setting up production capacity for more than 200 Gauss thrusters per year. The new thruster ...

Texas A&M University researchers have demonstrated 'metajets'—nanoscale-engineered surfaces that can generate both thrust and lift from a single laser beam—offering a new approach to light-based ...