While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

A new era of space exploration is dawning, driven by groundbreaking advancements in nuclear fusion technology. At the forefront of this revolution is Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based company pushing the ...

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

For decades, NASA has dreamed of building a rocket powerful enough to take humans to Mars - and now, that dream might finally come true. The agency is developing a nuclear-powered engine that could ...

TYRANT Kim Jong-un showed off a new ballistic missile said to have one of the “most powerful” nuclear systems ever at a ...

New details of the Trump administration's plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House's desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine that could have ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable voyages to the farthest reaches of the solar system. A team from Ohio State ...

North Korea flaunted its “most powerful” nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at a military parade.

The USA's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has finalised an agreement with Lockheed Martin to begin work on the fabrication and design of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket and its engine ...

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Introduction -- Rocket engine fundamentals -- Nuclear rocket engine cycles -- Interplanetary mission analysis -- Basic nuclear structure and processes -- Neutron flux energy distribution -- Neutron ...