The Most Incredible Science Events Of 2016

NASA’s EM Drive Passes Peer Review

Up to now, the speeds and distances of spacecraft have been limited by the vast amounts of liquid fuel needed to get them both into space and back again. Rocket scientists have long dreamed of creating propellant-less typed of rocket propulsion, and in 2016 one of these systems might have finally been created. The so-called “EM Drive” passed peer review in 2016, meaning a jury of other scientists reviewed the patent and found that the engineering is sound. The Em Drive works by beaming electromagnetic radiation inside of a closed cone-shaped body, creating a type of radiation that is converted to thrust thanks to a bizarre, laws-of-physics-bending interaction. If further testing confirms the technology works, it could potentially take spacecraft to Mars in just seventy days.