Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major test of a new lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that could ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

NASA recently shared a photo that details the vastly different landscapes its Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have spent ...

Curiosity has been on the Red Planet for almost 14 years, traveling up Mount Sharp, the major feature of Gale Crater.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at a record 120 kilowatts, over 25 times more powerful than current electric spacecraft engines.

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

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