Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

Applications of laser-plasma accelerated protons in fundamental, applied and medical sciences crucially depend on the creation of stable collimated beams with high repetition rates. Here the ...

AI-driven Hall thruster technology from KAIST will be demonstrated on the K-HERO CubeSat, advancing high-efficiency electric ...

The United States Navy has reportedly tested its HELIOS laser weapon on an aerial target at a unknown location sometime in 2024.

Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for an impressive 1,066 seconds. Credit: ...

China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory ...

Safely and prudently sending a manned mission that arrives and lands before Trump leaves office is possible. Every 26 months there are launch windows to send missions from Earth to Mars. SpaceX is ...

Apart from anything else, exposing astronauts to higher levels of radiation, free from Earth's protective atmosphere, is not ideal ... As such, scientists are looking into other methods of propulsion, ...

Here’s how it works. China's "artificial sun" reactor has broken its own world record for maintaining super-hot plasma, marking another milestone in the long road towards near-limitless clean ...

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Predicting the lifetime of an electric ion thruster is notoriously difficult ... of carbon atoms that are displaced. I work on the plasma/material interface, and Josh is the experimentalist ...