Space startup Zenno Astronautics says it has tested an entirely new type of thruster that uses superconducting magnets to ...

Last week, NASA held a press conference to lay out to the public its plans for establishing a Moon Base that will one day see astronauts residing more or less permanently on Earth's biggest satellite.

The destruction of Blue Origin's unmanned New Glenn rocket in a catastrophic launchpad explosion, along with apparently severe damage to the company's only launch pad, sent shock waves through the U.S ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected what may be the first confirmed gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova — one of the most extreme explosions in the universe. Scientists believe the blast ...

Buckle up, kiddos, we're goin' to Mars! Okay, so no one is actually going to Mars anytime soon and SpaceX's Starship rocket keeps exploding. However, extra-long-distance space travel is inching closer ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

The first human Mars explorers won’t have it easy. Every additional day in deep space will increase their exposure to deadly cosmic radiation, while isolation gnaws at their minds and microgravity ...

NASA has chosen to develop a University of Colorado project that could revolutionize the measurement of magnetic fields in space. Researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU ...

Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than century.

"This marks the first time in the United States that an electric propulsion system has operated at power levels this high, reaching up to 120 kilowatts." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Rudolph Diesel made tremendous progress in improving fuel efficiency by developing his diesel engine in the 1890s. Gasoline engines had been in development and commercial use for some years but were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA completed the engine burn on April 2 that will send the four astronauts of Artemis II on their way around the moon — and ...