Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

"I’d say that while an astronaut could make it to Mars they might need dialysis on the way back," researchers said.

A crewed expedition to Mars promises to push the absolute limits of human endurance. To grasp the sheer scale of the journey, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at a record 120 kilowatts, over 25 times more powerful than current electric spacecraft engines.

Whether it's robotic rovers heading to Mars or, one day, a crew of astronauts, a round-trip journey is an incredibly long one ...

You're in the lab analyzing Martian regolith samples within your cozy Mars habitat serving on the fifth human mission to Mars ...

Explore Mars colonization plans and current Mars missions, highlighting how global space agencies and private companies are preparing for future human settlements on the Red Planet. Pixabay, ...