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

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 ...

NASA has achieved a critical milestone in space exploration with the successful testing of advanced nuclear thermal ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

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

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

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 ...

Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines to ammonia-heavy asteroids and redirecting the asteroids so that they crash into Mars and release the meteor's ammonia and ...