A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make ...

Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

There are two propulsion experiments on the Rogue Systems OTP2 satellite. The nanosats database has descriptions of the systems. The current satellite movement is the other propulsion system. I only ...

Back in September, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft headed to the International Space Station (ISS) with crucial supplies and exciting experiments on board. On the manifest was something called ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The U.S. Space Force has announced a grant to create a new institute led by the University of Michigan and supported by nine other schools, including Western Michigan ...

Andrews Space & Technology (AS&T) successfully demonstrated the fundamental operating principles of a propulsion system that could dramatically affect interplanetary space travel, shortening round ...

Novel propulsion-airframe integration concepts are among the technologies NASA could take to flight under a new push for X-planes. Credit: Georgia Tech Research Institute Acting on NASA Administrator ...

Click to open image viewer. American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard (1882-1945) used this device between 1924 and 1928 in his experiments to determine the feasibility of ion propulsion for space travel ...

Click to open image viewer. American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard (1882-1945) and his graduate students used this object between 1924 and 1928 in their experiments to determine the feasibility of ion ...