Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The ...

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams.

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Kendall Howie, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, is researching how electron beam processing could improve the food ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Researchers used supercomputer simulations to unlock the secrets of electrons in plasma beams ejected by electric propulsion ...

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.