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This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about the EmDrive NASA has been working on at its Eagleworks lab under the direction of Doctor Harold White. Also known as the EM Drive, the EmDrive is based ...

Documents were leaked earlier this month about NASA’s study of a proposed EmDrive. It generated the usual host of reactions, ranging from “it totally works” hype to outright dismissal. It’s rare for a ...

Since the birth of the space age, the dream of catching a ride to another solar system has been hobbled by the “tyranny of the rocket equation,” which sets hard limits on the speed and size of the ...

This is a guest post by David Hambling, a freelance journalist and author based in South London, specialising in science, technology and strange phenomena. Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space ...

In major international tests, the physics-defying EmDrive has failed to produce the amount of thrust proponents were expecting. In fact, in one test at Germany’s Dresden University, it didn’t produce ...

In 2014, no less an authority than NASA proclaimed in peer-reviewed papers that it was getting mysterious thrust from the EmDrive, a strange, brassy trumpet of a thing that its creators claimed could ...

The keys to EMDrive experiments are prove the propulsion is real and will work in space. Find a way with theory or experiment to scale up the effect. If it is real and the effect can be scaled up then ...

Here's a hint: It's a spaceship engine... that needs no fuel to operate. NASA is going to Mars, perhaps as early as 2033. It won't be a short trip, however, at least not with current technology. One ...