"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Portal Space Systems has raised $17.5 million to accelerate the development of a space vehicle with a solar thermal ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

Using nuclear fusion to power a fleet of reusable rockets, nicknamed Sunbirds, capable of significantly reducing travel times within the Solar System ... directly used for propulsion, offering ...

When it comes to crossing these great distances, conventional chemical rocket technology simply ... could one day take us far beyond our own solar system.

Nagpur, has successfully developed and tested a third-stage rocket motor for the VIKRAM-1 Satellite Launch Vehicle. The ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Space solar power, or what I like to call Starlink for electricity, is at once a ludicrous idea and a bit of a pipe dream.

British company Pulsar Fusion has revealed its plan for the Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-based rocket aiming to drastically cut ...