A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

One alternative once the rocket's in space is harnessing electric propulsion, which Dinan says is “very good, but not quick” and needs a long time to accelerate. Another option is Nuclear ...

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...

The use of nuclear fusion to halve the time spacecraft take to reach Mars is "inevitable", the boss of a British firm leading ...

If the rocket ever becomes operational, it could one day cut the journey time of a potential mission to Mars in half. Nuclear fusion is different from nuclear fission, which is what powers current ...

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket that, it claims, could significantly cut down the time it takes to travel to ...

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion is working on a nuclear rocket that uses fusion energy to propel spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. If successful, the company says it could cut the travel ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A novel experiment on nuclear thermal rocket fuel coatings was conducted to advance NASA's Mars mission capabilities. The experiment tested zirconium carbide ...