A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered ...

Andrews Space & Technology (AS&T) successfully demonstrated the fundamental operating principles of a propulsion system that could dramatically affect interplanetary space travel, shortening round ...

Back in September, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft headed to the International Space Station (ISS) with crucial supplies and exciting experiments on board. On the manifest was something called ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity arc aboard a parabolic flight, points to a strange and promising idea for ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for interstellar propulsion. Reading time 3 minutes A team of researchers at ...

A big part of NASA Glenn’s mission over the years has been to design and test propulsion systems and that will continue during Artemis. Propulsion has been a technological sweet spot for Glenn since ...

On June 28, 2022, NASA launched its Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE). This mission aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using low ...