The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

offering the potential to power spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. Pulsar Fusion's ambitious goal is to construct the largest and most practical nuclear fusion rocket engine to date. Their 8 ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

Nuclear power generation is on the rise worldwide. The use of nuclear energy is also being investigated in the space sector.

The reactor was a Kiwi, an obsolete experimental nuclear rocket engine built at Los Alamos Scientific ... building two miles from the condemned power plant to wait for a northeast wind that ...

The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

Russia's RS-28 Sarmat missile, claimed by Putin to be powerful, faces development setbacks linked to Ukrainian technology, as ...