Matter-antimatter annihilations produce about 10 billion times more energy per unit mass than chemical combustion (which powers most operational spacecraft propulsion systems) and about 300 times more ...

NASA's three-phase roadmap to land humans on Mars by 2040 involves a $20 billion spacecraft, deep space test missions, and a ...

Space Force recently tested satellite interception capabilities in orbit. Two commercial satellites successfully located and ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

New Mexico, June 17, 2025 — Desert Works Propulsion (DWP) has successfully completed initial testing of multiple prototype discharge and neutralizer cathodes developed for Turion Space Corp.’s TIE-20 ...

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light ...

Stuttgart, Germany – Marc. 17, 2026 – ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to ...

NASA's Swift Observatory is in peril. A last minute mission to save it could make spaceflight history. Here's everything to ...

Mobility in space continually cements itself as important in this modern era of space exploration, with satellites like Starlink, Amazon's upcoming Project Kuiper, the International Space Station, and ...

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuters) - NASA and Arizona-based startup Katalyst launched a robotic ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later.