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 company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one ...

The demonstration rocket’s engine reactor remains in ... Osorio says that “qualifying an operational nuclear thermal propulsion engine for space transportation will require a ground-test ...

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor ... humans to the Red Planet using conventional rockets would require upwards of six months ...

Putin’s missile that “has no analogs in the world” is no nearer becoming operational. Many believe this is because Russia ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...