Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...

Space exploration has long been a dream of humanity, but a new development out of Russia could change the future of ...

The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes The future of space travel depends on our ...

Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency ...

A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent ...

Microwave plasma dynamics encompasses the study of ionised gases generated by high frequency electromagnetic fields and their complex interactions with the surrounding medium. At the heart of this ...

Amin Taziny is currently a PostDoctoral Associate at the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he focuses on computational simulations of plasma ...

Eos Atomics, formerly known as AeroFuse, today announced its strategic rebranding and the launch of its breakthrough Neutral ...

The magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster operated in a Mega hpt vacuum chamber at Tohoku University CREDIT Kazunori Takahashi A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power ...