When it comes to space, there's a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all the things. A big problem. It's space.

The engine accelerates ions confined in a loop to relativistic speeds, and then varies their velocity to make slight changes to their mass.

Traveling to Proxima Centauri b, the closest habitable planet to Earth, would require thousands of years with even the biggest rockets.

Aerospace engineers at MIT are testing a new concept for a hovering rover that levitates by harnessing the moon’s natural charge.

A nuclear fusion company with lofty aspirations around sustainable space travel, has test-fired a rocket engine powered by plastic waste.

A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets in the hunt for life.

Researchers have developed a concept that would make rocket fuel on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids and will include three gravity assists

Measuring a magnetic field isn't so hard if you're inside of it. Measuring a magnetic field remotely is an entirely different story.

The retrograde rockets needed to land on the moon's surface will also kick dust and rock up into the air potentially damaging the lander.

This form of propulsion starts with large solar arrays that convert sunlight into electricity, providing the power source for the spacecraft

When the Space X23 rocket launches to resupply the International Space Station, it will carry two experiments designed to sustain humans

FLPP oversees system studies and research activities to foster new and disruptive technologies which have the potential to reduce cost.

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba explore the possibility of launching rockets using a high-power beam of microwave radiation.

What should future spacecraft engines be able to do? One major goal would be for it to allow spacecraft to travel through the solar system