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

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

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

Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple the ... Long-term storage of cryogenic hydrogen for the follow-on propulsion system remains a key challenge for the scientific ...

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

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 ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel ...

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

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 ...

Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric Propulsion Vehicles ... we eliminate trying to fit the whole system into one rocket fairing," said Amanda Stark, a heat transfer engineer at ...

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 day ...