For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

A space startup called Helicity Space is working on a scalable fusion drive design that could revolutionize the space ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that ...

NASA is planning to push the boundaries of space exploration with its new Nighthawk Mars helicopter, a cutting-edge mission ...

The concept included preparations for the human exploration of Mars. At the time ... s leading experts in parachute design. Juan Cruz, from the NASA Langley Space Center in Virginia, is a part ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Oleson is the leader of the Compact Fission Reactor Design Team at ... team to develop their CHAMPS concept for potential missions to Mars. This study envisions spacecraft using a commercial ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

And even though it has a somewhat retro design, the capsule concept is ... have designed spacecraft that shed the shackles of Earth’s gravity and traveled to the moon or Mars.

This can be transformed into thrust to power spacecraft, a lot more effectively than in the case of chemical rockets. As per Helicity Space, its design is ... take a trip to Mars into account ...