A former Japan Airlines Boeing 777 has been turned into a high-capacity flying lab by NASA, giving the agency a serious ...
A heavily modified Boeing 777 -200ER formerly operated by Japan Air Lines will soon become NASA’s largest flying science ...
Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...
NASA announced a successful test of a sci-fi-sounding lithium metal vapor electric thruster propulsion system that could ...
Most Boeing 777s spend their lives shuttling passengers between global hubs. But one specific ...
Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Dragonfly is a flying spacecraft that will be sent to Saturn’s moon Titan and is designed to travel from place to ...
Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites -- some decades past design life -- struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...
The first time the plane is expected to take to the sky is January 2027, when it will be part of a mission called North ...
A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to ...