Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.
A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...
This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, ...
For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in ...
Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.
American space agency NASA announced the first major test of a new lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that could ...
Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.
New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ...
Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...