Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

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.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Monday announced that it will lay off about 550 employees, or about 11 percent of its workforce. According to JPL director Dave Gallagher, the move has ...

The NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft is viewed inside an assembly facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2024. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) For the record: 9:09 a.m. April 20, 2026: An earlier ...