Researchers in China have unveiled a plasma-based jet propulsion concept that generates thrust using air and electrical energy rather than conventional combustion. This analysis reviews the physics ...

Dassault Aviation has started building parts for its Vortex spaceplane demonstrator with the aim of building momentum for a project it wants to see flying as early as 2028. Some of the components ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research ...

The coming decades of space exploration hinge on a single, stubborn number: the 225 million kilometres between Earth and Mars. Chemical rockets, the workhorses of every space programme to date, take ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and startup Specter Aerospace plan to develop and flight test a supersonic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of ...

The emergence of plasma-based directed-energy weapon systems necessitates a reconceptualization of deterrence theory. Plasma ...

Surf Air and BETA Technologies are trying to build the world’s first green regional airline. Two weeks into the Iran conflict, the timing couldn’t be better.

Humanity’s plans for deep-space exploration hinge on the ability to use basic resources, such as water, to propel rockets to farther destinations in the solar system. Despite decades of ...

It's the first time a celestial body's orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA's Dart ...

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...