NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans into deep space at unprecedented speeds. NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear ...

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket. Credit ... While they do have the power to get spacecraft to Mars and beyond, they require a lot of fuel to do so, which means they can ...

First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that is used to heat up a propellant. This propellant is most likely hydrogen, though ...

A plasma rocket, on the other hand, is a type of electric propulsion system that ... to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space to reduce transit time for human missions to the ...

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 ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...

The demonstration rocket’s engine reactor remains in ... The U.S. program also capitalizes on newly gained bipartisan support for nuclear power. In his first term, President-elect Donald ...