Proving yet again that Star Trek was scarily prescient, NASA has announced that its NEXT ion drive -- NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster -- has operated continually for over 43,000 hours (five years).

NASA is launching a spacecraft destined to slam into an asteroid as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tonight, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Its purpose ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's mission DART will test our ability to redirect an asteroid by quite literally crashing ...

Comets tend to have two tails. One is known as the dust tail, and it tends to be more curved, while the other, known as the ...

NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, will host a Media Opportunity to showcase an ion thruster prototype on Wed., Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. EST. This prototype was built under NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon ...

Two spacecraft were soon going to cross the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS through its ion tail, one of the two comet tails, ...

NASA’s mission to an asteroid that could be worth 70,000 times the global economy is expected to begin this year. Artist’s concept of the asteroid 16 Psyche. Named after the Greek goddess of the soul, ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn’s 8-year, 1.6 billion-kilometer (3-billion-mile) ...