This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and ...

An engineer who once worked with NASA says he has built a machine that can push against gravity without burning a drop of ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is intimidating. While the moon is ...

Dr. Campbell Carter, an aerospace systems engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has been honored with the 2017 American ...

Electrek has learned of yet another important hire at electric car startup Faraday Future (FF). The company has been successful in convincing an impressive number of auto executives to join the effort ...

WASHINGTON — Orion Propulsion Inc., a Huntsville, Ala.-based company founded nearly five years ago by the lead propulsion engineer for the Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne suborbital space plane, ...

Who are you, what is your job role and what do you do? My name’s Jimara and I’m currently a Graduate Spacecraft Propulsion Engineer at Airbus. Being part of the propulsion team means that I get to ...