It's hard to fit everything on a small satellite, especially the fuel, but a new propulsion system could make it easier. Instead of having separate fuel for chemical thrusters and electrical thrusters ...

Approximately 550 employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be laid off, according to an announcement made on the agency's website on Monday (Oct. 13). The news comes in the midst of an ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA this week will lay off about 550 employees — more than 10% of JPL's workforce — as part of a restructuring. The job cuts "are not related to the current ...

This artist’s concept shows one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. This ...

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and fuel-efficiency of electrical thrusters. The system could ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On ...

On June 29, Rocket Lab announced an agreement to acquire Iridium for roughly $8 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $54 per share. The acquisition helps Rocket Lab achieve a few goals.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Monday that it will cut around 550 jobs — around 10% of its staff. In a statement posted online, the lab’s director, Dave Gallagher, said the layoffs are ...