Engineers working with the Pentagon’s advanced research arm and a Seattle startup say they are closing in on “infinite flight” for drones by zapping them with high powered lasers from the ground.

The FAA imposed a surprise flight ban over El Paso earlier this week amid disagreements within the U.S. government over the use of a high-energy laser against drones at the border.

Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

Recently delivered by Spanish shipyard Gondan to the U.K.’s Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the agency’s newest vessel, Pole ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant ...

Abstract: This article presents a distributed hybrid electric propulsion system (DHEPS) retrofitted for a general aviation aircraft, incorporating additional distributed propulsion units to enhance ...

A possible alternative to active debris removal (ADR) by laser is ablative propulsion by a remotely transmitted electron beam ...

Though the hypothetical Trump-class vessel would have advantages in some areas, it has no good answer to the Admiral Nakhimov ...

The big picture: For decades, the promise of fusion power seemed just out of reach – a theoretical miracle of physics that stubbornly refused to move from blueprint to breaker box. Yet in laboratories ...

As one of the world’s largest ferry operators, British Columbia Ferry Services (BC Ferries) serves 47 terminals year-round across 25 routes, transporting approximately 9.7 million vehicles and 22.7 ...

Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander that suffered a propulsion system anomaly shortly after separation from its Vulcan Centaur rocket upper stage. A new image of the spacecraft shows "disturbed" ...

Abstract: To enhance the endurance and energy utilization efficiency of electric propulsion aircraft (EPA), this article constructs an integrated energy system (IES) architecture for EPA and, on this ...