NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

Two Fast Plasma Positioning Control Coils (FPPCs) for maintaining stable plasma during the plasma heating experiments scheduled to begin in 2026, have been completed for JT-60SA—the world’s largest ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

The National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (President: KOYASU Shigeo; hereinafter referred to as "QST") and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President & CEO: URUMA Kei; hereinafter ...

Mark Medley is The Globe and Mail’s Deputy Opinion Editor. He is the author of Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, ...