A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...

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 ...

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

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel ... at least a third more power than the best chemical rocket. If such an engine could be made, it would ...

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 ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent A ...

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 demonstration rocket’s engine reactor remains in “pre-PDR ... capitalizes on newly gained bipartisan support for nuclear power. In his first term, President-elect Donald Trump signed ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is partnering with a Pentagon research agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars. NASA ...

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