Story form: New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares

by Raphael Rosen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Brief:
A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
Full details https://phys.org/news/2021-01-concept-rocket-thruster-exploits-mechanism.html

Paper citation:
Fatima Ebrahimi, An Alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid thruster, Journal of Plasma Physics (2020).

Notes from the peanut gallery (aka me) -
Basically what she is describing is the equivalent of nuclear plasma fuel injection. It's beautiful.