A laboratory in Troitsk, Russia, may have just nudged humanity closer to interplanetary commuting. Scientists at Rosatom, the country's state nuclear corporation, have revealed a working prototype of ...

NASA is working on a lithium-plasma electric thruster that uses roughly 90% less fuel than chemical rockets. Can this new ...

Russia is quietly testing a new plasma propulsion system that, if it performs as claimed, could dramatically change how long it takes to travel to Mars. Early results suggest a leap in speed and ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

NASA has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at a record 120 kilowatts, marking a major step forward in high-power electric propulsion. Conducted at the Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully ...

Ok, the way I'm understanding plasma engines is bascially they energize hydrogen fuel so hot that it ionizes the hydrogen. Then it pases the ionized gases into another chamber that uses radio waves to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One ...