However, there are two major problems with nuclear rockets. First, the heat generated has to be carefully controlled if you don't want the engine to end up simply melting. The other is how to control ...

Russia has flown a nuclear-arm-capable cruise missile propelled by a nuclear engine. In a televised conference chaired by ...

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...

Fundamentals of thermodynamics and aerodynamics -- Thermodynamic cycle analysis of gas turbines and air-breathing propulsion systems -- Aerodynamic design of axial flow compressors and turbines -- ...

Mars nuclear rocket: Researchers at Ohio State University say they’ve hit a breakthrough that could reshape how humans travel through space. Their new concept, a centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket, or ...

A laboratory in Troitsk, Russia, may have just nudged humanity closer to interplanetary commuting. Scientists at Rosatom, the country's state nuclear corporation, have revealed a working prototype of ...

Kim Jong Un on Monday watched a test of North Korea’s new high-thrust rocket engine, an event that sets the stage for Pyongyang to test its newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the ...