A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...
We'll never heroically circle the moon on an Artemis mission, and watching our chunky interplanetary boot as it sinks into red dirt that is distinctly Martian must remain a daydream. But we can make ...
The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...
The cuts, proposed in the Trump administration's 2027 budget request to Congress, would pose further challenges to the venerable La Cañada Flintridge facility and its space missions.
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...
John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
JPL on Monday, Oct. 6, confirmed that a number of layoffs coming this month will once again hit the venerable science hub that straddles Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge. The federal space and earth ...