Space is becoming more crowded and as the number of satellites increases, so too does the risk of a collision, highlighting ...

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion ... they can incorporate this into designs for future electric propulsion engines, looking for ways to limit the back-scatter, or perhaps confine the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...

The agency said Friday the Habitation and Logistics Outpost, or HALO, the future space station’s first pressurized module, ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

Their bold experiments with ionic propulsion and electrostatic energy opened doors for future space exploration methods.

A conceptual laser thermal propulsion space mission to Mars ... a useful propulsion method for research craft one day in the future. Unlike other seemingly sci-f tech, like ion thrusters, these ...

Advanced propulsion technologies, such as ion engines and nuclear thermal rockets, are also being explored for future space exploration missions.

for a fascinating deep dive into nuclear propulsion technology for space exploration. They discuss the history, current ...