A powerful new plasma engine has just been unveiled by Chinese engineers – and it is expected to propel China ahead of the United States in the race to develop plasma technology for Mars and ...

For the first time, scientists have 'photographed' a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into spaghetti-like filaments. A new study, published in Physical Review Letters ...

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The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to speeds of up to 100 kilometers per second (62 miles per second), reducing travel time to Mars from years to just 30 to 60 days.

It exists naturally in sunlighting events and can also undergo synthetic production. Research scientists from Wuhan University developed this plasma engine through a combination of cutting-edge ...

In actuality, the procedure is comparable to the plasma engine demonstration we witnessed two weeks ago. In 1929, Albert Einstein postulated that a nuclear fusion-based “proton engine” would be ...