Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear propulsion as a faster space travel alternative. Estimates suggest the method could fly a spacecraft to Mars in approximately a month ...

Find top-rated products on Amazon today! NASA’s new spacecraft concept incorporates a nuclear-electric propulsion system to accelerate journeys to Mars. At the core of this innovation is a ...

As humanity’s ambitions to send humans to Mars grow, the challenge of getting there in a timely and safe manner becomes more ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...

NASA announced that engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are shutting ... probes are equipped with a radioisotope power system, a nuclear battery that uses the heat of decaying plutonium ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Since 2015, NASA and the United States Department of Energy have been working on the Kilopower project, which aims to develop a small, lightweight, and extremely reliable nuclear reactor that they ...

Recently NASA announced earlier this month that the 12 kW Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) — which is scheduled to form an integral part of the Lunar Gateway when it is launched ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible," Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Fission surface power technologies also will help NASA mature nuclear propulsion systems that rely on reactors to generate power. These systems could be used for deep space exploration missions.