propulsion

OK, WTF is NASA’s Humanity-Saving Ion Engine?

04.01.20

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Scientists Are Studying Using Supernovas as Fuel for Interstellar Travel

03.04.20

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

NASA-Funded Solar Sail Uses Metamaterials to Generate More Power

07.18.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Scientists Successfully Test an Air-Breathing Satellite Thruster

03.07.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

China Is Testing Silent ‘Magnetic Drive’ Submarines to Evade the US Navy

11.03.17

By David Axe
Tech

Theoretical Physicists Are Getting Closer to Explaining How NASA’s ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Works

10.31.17

By Giulio Prisco
Tech

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

11.14.16

By Daniel Oberhaus
Tech

That Physicist in Omaha Is Still Working on a Warp Drive in His Garage

07.20.15

By Doug Bierend
Tech

Engineers Stumble on a Whole New Method of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

06.17.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

NASA’s Chief Technologist Says We’re ‘Halfway’ to Getting Humans on Mars

11.21.14

By Victoria Turk
Music

Getting Toasted in the Supermarket Is Advised: Here’s The Last Skeptik’s “Propulsion”

10.29.14

By Danielle Goldstein
Tech

A Brief, Depressing History of Solar Sails

10.20.14

By Jason Koebler