Space debris is a growing threat to satellites and missions, with over 14,000 pieces already cluttering low-Earth orbit. To address this, Kazunori Takahashi, a researcher at Tohoku University in Japan ...

A breakthrough in ion-propulsion technology has resulted in a new ion thruster with more than a tenfold increase in fuel efficiency over the ion engine now in use on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

The phrase "engage the ion drive" still has the ring of a line from Star Wars, but these engines have been used in space missions for more than four decades and remain the subject of ongoing research.