Plasma jet engines promise a future of fuel-free, electrically driven flight, but the technology faces a stubborn obstacle ...

Russia is quietly testing a new plasma propulsion system that, if it performs as claimed, could dramatically change how long it takes to travel to Mars. Early results suggest a leap in speed and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve been talking about going to Mars for decades, but we haven’t yet cracked how to get people there and back safely and in a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While chemical rockets penned the opening pages of the story of human spaceflight, countries around the world are eager to start a new chapter: ...

Engineers in the aeronautical industry are always cooking up fresh ideas for aircraft, especially when it comes to making jet ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion has achieved its first plasma in the exhaust system of its ...

PLASMA ENGINE FACILITY: Safran has inaugurated a new plasma engine facility at its space propulsion plant in Vernon, north of Paris. The facility, partly financed with a 1 million euro ($1.3 million) ...

MOSCOW, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia has started to test a prototype electrode-less plasma engine designed for deep space missions, the National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" announced.