HOUSTON—An advanced propulsion source, the Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT), could be the catalyst for the eventual high-speed human travel throughout the Solar System and beyond as well as commercially ...

Adding iron to a copper-based propellant MOF simultaneously solves its water stability problem and boosts laser propulsion ...

Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of ...

For decades, researchers have explored light sails as an alternative. These devices use radiation pressure—the force exerted ...