Over the last two decades, Les Johnson and his team of engineers have quietly been pushing NASA into a new era of space exploration while nobody was paying attention. As an engineer at the legendary ...

Testing has started at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on a concept for a potentially revolutionary propulsion system that could send spacecraft to the edge of our solar ...

In days gone by, explorers traveled into the unknown by sailing on the wind, and the robotic explorers of the future may do some sailing of their own. NASA is on the verge of launching a ...

As governments refine the technology and a US startup pitches giant mirrors that redirect daylight after dark, the race to quite literally sail through space using sunlight is starting to look less ...

More than four months after launching to space, NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has successfully deployed its solar sail, marking a significant milestone in the development of solar ...