Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons. Magnetic fields then funnel and accelerate the ...

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...

Russian scientists say they are closing in on a propulsion breakthrough that could compress the journey from Earth to Mars from roughly 300 days to about one month. The project centers on a high power ...

In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit ...

How can nuclear propulsion help improve deep space missions by significantly reducing the amount of time to reach Mars and beyond? This is what a recent study published in Acta Astronautica hopes to ...

NASA has completed over 100 cold-flow tests of a full-scale nuclear rocket reactor prototype, demonstrating stable hydrogen ...

Artificial intelligence is moving from the control room into the engine bell, reshaping how rockets are designed, steered and powered. Instead of treating propulsion as a fixed piece of hardware, ...