Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

The achievement, part of a larger push toward long-term human presence in space, positions China as a major player in advanced space ... human life and spacecraft propulsion.

Scientists at the Research Institute for Advanced ... sci-fi dreams into real experiments. Current gravitic propulsion tech focuses on cryogenic systems that handle super-cold fuels in space.

Instead of cloth and wind, though, a laser sail substitutes in advanced ... sci-f tech, like ion thrusters, these laser propulsion methods are still quite a ways off being fielded in real space ...