Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

New analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don't have plumes ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

cutting through plumes of plasma while circling it on Tuesday morning, the space agency said in a statement. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe “is in good health and operating normally” ahead of its ...

NASA's nuclear propulsion breakthrough promises Mars trips in 45 days. Combining nuclear and plasma systems boosts efficiency ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday ... and how coronal mass ejections -- massive clouds of plasma that hurl through space -- are formed. The Christmas Eve flyby is the first of ...

New Glenn will carry NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission to Mars. This mission involves two identical spacecraft, Blue and Gold, developed by Rocket Lab ...