Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created a high-energy, ultrashort, ultrahigh current petawatt ...

Nearly two weeks after returning from a nine-month stay in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams share more ...

On March 21, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Boeing would be awarded a contract valued at more than $20 billion to develop the F-47, a sixth-generation ...

A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

“What you get is this highly energetic copper plasma leaving the back of the thruster,” Stokes continues, which moves the thruster in the opposite direction. For now, the system is not refuelabl ...

An emerging technology with significant potential is atmospheric cold plasma, or ACP. ACP is a non-thermal, residue-free process that produces reactive gas species, which can effectively ...

Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall ...

The Dragon spacecraft for Crew-10 was swapped due to battery problems, and the replacement spacecraft also had thruster issues that needed to be addressed. SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent ...

For the first time, scientists have 'photographed' a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into spaghetti-like filaments. A new study, published in Physical Review Letters ...

NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ... Last October, to conserve energy, the project turned off Voyager 2’s plasma science instrument, which measures the amount of plasma — ...