Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Rocket Lab (NasdaqCM:RKLB) has introduced its Gauss high volume electric satellite thruster. The company is setting up production capacity for more than 200 Gauss thrusters per year. The new thruster ...

Rocket Lab has entered the electric propulsion market with Gauss, a Hall-effect thruster built for the satellites that fly in ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today introduced a new electric satellite thruster designed for high-volume ...

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years of quiet research, Pulsar Fusion has unveiled a nuclear fusion-powered ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

RESTON, Va., March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) released “AIAA Collection: A Century of Rocketry”, a special compilation of 100 technical ...

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NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade — but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...