In US and Australia, research is underway into solid metallic fuels for spacecraft. These include molybdenum, zinc, copper, magnesium, stainless steel...

In US, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a solar sail that can control the direction of the protons bouncing off it by means of an ...

In US, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a solar sail that can control the direction of the protons bouncing off it by means of an ...

In US, DARPA and NASA are collaborating in a nuclear-powered rocket based on a fission reactor to heat the liquid hydrogen reactant, using a high-ener...

The next phase of lunar exploration aims to open up space resource development. Maria Kielmas reports.   

In US, Pratt & Whitney are working on a high-speed (Mach No. 3 to 5) Metacomet turbo-ramjet propulsion system based on reusability, incorporating ...

In US, NASA and several universities are applying the rotating detonation concept to rocket propulsion, increasing the specific impulse by 10%, the pr...

In US, NASA is researching a 50 kg solar-sailing spacecraft designed to locate and examine asteroids and comets visiting our planetary system. The cra...