What does a solar eclipse look like from the moon? The NASA-supported ‘Blue Ghost’ spaceship will find out on March 29 — if ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

Issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield on Artemis 1 have delayed the next mission, Artemis 2. So what happened?

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in the new year.

New Glenn will carry NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission to Mars. This mission involves two identical spacecraft, Blue and Gold, developed by Rocket Lab ...

Plasma waves: Plasma is like a soup of charged particles, such as electrons and ions, which are extremely thin and widely ...

New analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don't have plumes ...

NASA shuts down the Voyager 2 instrument for plasma science to extend the lifespan of the mission It was on September 26, 2023, that NASA closed the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS), one of the main ...