Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

The scientists at Rosatom have successfully developed a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator. The engine demonstrates enhanced thrust ...

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...

Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster — and hotter. UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the ...

Russia has introduced a plasma electric rocket engine that could transform space travel. This technology may reduce the journey to Mars to just 30-60 days. Current missions take nearly a year ...

I’VE never driven a MINI and not thoroughly enjoyed the experience. They’re like an antidepressant with that guaranteed ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. The concept ...