Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

Russia is testing a new plasma rocket engine that would drastically reduce travel time from earth to mars using charged ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

According to NASA's estimates, spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Larger rockets can go faster and carry more payload, but they are constrained by the mass of the fuel required to power them. They are also simply too slow for deep space travel. According to NASA's ...

SpaceX has long set its sights on Mars, and has made the bold promise that they will land humans on Mars in 2029, which will eventually pave the path for chief executive officer Elon Musk’s plans for ...

NASA responded to news that Boeing aims to lay off up to 400 workers from its Space Launch System program. The SLS rocket ...

Egor Biriulin, who works at Rosatom’s scientific institute in Troitsk, explained to a Russian newspaper per Gizmodo that this engine can speed up particles to an incredible 100 kilometers per second.

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...