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A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with

NASA is studying innovative rocket system developed by Howe Industries that could reducing travel time to the Red Planet to just a few months.

This technology could potentially allow astronauts and cargo to travel to and from Mars more efficiently and rapidly than current spacecraft, NASA said

Howe Industries is currently developing a propulsion system that may generate up to 100,000 N of thrust with a specific impulse (Isp) of 5,000 seconds. The

For over a century, people have dreamed of the day when humanity (as a species) would venture into space.

LA JOLLA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vector Space Biosciences announces it has begun filing for licensing and registration for the design, development and launching of biological CubeSats, enabling biotechnology, pharmaceutical and advanced materials companies to generate unique and powerful datasets to advance the sp...

The problem involved the Kuiper Belt, which is a massive disk of icy bodies located just outside of Neptune’s orbit in our solar system.

A new study shows how solar flares are another 'Goldilocks' situation. Too much is not good for life, but a little could be beneficial.

Putting people on the surface of Mars is going to expose them to a whole bunch of deadly space radiation.

Radiation monitoring in space radiation is complex due to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR), Solar Particle Events (SPE) and albedo particles. Thermal neutrons are an important component in the Moon radiation albedo field which can cause single event upset (SEU) in electronics when they interact with the 10B present in electronic components. In this work, we studied an application of silicon on insulator (SOI) microdosimeters for neutron monitoring in various mixed radiation field environments. A 10 μ...