Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications. It far surpasses the capabilities of traditional chemical rocket engines, ...

NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions forward.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

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NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

Ukraine has expertise in nuclear and missile technology ... Neither of the two strategic-missile developers in Russia — the ...

The technology could help produce more resistant materials and allow scientists more control over fusion reactions.

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. The 400ft rocket - the biggest and most powerful in the world - soared from Boca Chica, south Texas ...

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 ...

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