There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn far away. A ...

Adding iron to a copper-based propellant MOF simultaneously solves its water stability problem and boosts laser propulsion ...

When NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed on Mars in February last year, it had travelled for more than six months in the harsh environment of interplanetary space. In that time, it experienced huge ...

Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...

Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of ...

Scientists have successfully tested a material design for light sails using photonic crystals that could achieve 20% the speed of light ...

Faster forms of spacecraft propulsion have been a dream for decades, but now one researcher thinks he has a solid idea. Known as directed energy propulsion, it would involve firing a laser at a tiny ...

This is one of the idea outcomes of a 2018 NASA challenge for transporting a 1000kg payload to Mars in 45 days, as opposed to much longer via chemical rockets, even Starship. The physics seem ...

For decades, researchers have explored light sails as an alternative. These devices use radiation pressure—the force exerted when light reflects from a surface—to generate thrust. When driven by a ...

A breakthrough in laser propeller efficiency by Chinese scientists could transform underwater watercraft propulsion. SCMP reported that the experts have improved laser propeller efficiency, which ...

There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn far away. A ...