The coming decades of space exploration hinge on a single, stubborn number: the 225 million kilometres between Earth and Mars ...

Russian engineers are betting that a radically different rocket engine can compress the long slog to Mars into something closer to an interplanetary commute. Their new plasma propulsion prototype, ...

Boeing and Lockheed Martin's joint ULA venture uses the Russian-made RD-180 engine. Musk suggested SpaceX, which designs its own rocket engines, wouldn't be affected. Elon Musk recently addressed the ...

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

Russia has historically been a trailblazer when it comes to space exploration. It was the first to put a human into space in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin. It led the way for the first spacewalk and had the ...

(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin urged aerospace industry leaders on Friday to press on with efforts to develop booster rocket engines for space launch vehicles and build on Russia's longstanding ...

Russia says it will no longer send rocket engines to the United States, in retaliation for sanctions. The head of the Russian state space agency Roscosmos said it will also stop servicing rocket ...

A NASA Atlas V rocket carrying the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite takes off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., U.S., in 2009. Photographer: Bill Ingalls/NASA via ...

Two more Ariane flights this year. Unclear if the 64 will be one of them. Andrew Parsonson said: During a #WSBW panel, CEO of Arianespace David Cavaillolès explained that the company would launch two ...