The mission is designed to test solar sail technology to help NASA develop larger spacecraft in the future using this ...

Solar sailing is an innovative concept in spacecraft propulsion that utilizes the pressure of sunlight to propel spacecraft through space. This method offers a unique advantage as it does not ...

From astronauts getting stranded on a leaking ISS and faceplanting moon landers to injured Mars robots and a tumbling solar sail, here are 10 of the biggest space exploration mishaps in 2024.

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...

The data-gathering spacecraft zipped by the sun on Tuesday at 430,000 mph (692,017 kph) — the fastest speed ever reached by a human-made object — coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...