The delivered thrusters will enable the Gateway station to reach and maintain its orbit around the Moon, supporting Artemis ...

The delivery of three 12 kilowatt Hall-effect thrusters to NASA’s Lunar Gateway marks a pivotal moment in how the United ...

The Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) developed by Champaign-Urbana Aerospace uses Teflon and Delrin to generate thrust.

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.