Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative propulsion technologies that could enable humanity to reach the enigmatic world of ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts off for thousands of years. We may earn a commission when you buy through ...

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come again for another 11,400 years.

The propulsion system would shorten the probe’s travel time to Pluto and would enable it to explore other objects beyond Pluto after its mission there concludes.

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) is playing a critical role in the historic flyby of Pluto and its five known moons with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has traveled nearly three billion ...

With congressional funding and industry support, nuclear thermal propulsion technology is making progress for potential use on future NASA deep space missions, although how it fits into the agency ...

The company’s NGHT-1X Hall-effect thrusters are based on NASA’s technology, and will allow its Mission Extension Pod (MEP)—which, as its name suggests, is essentially a satellite repair ...