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 ...

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

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP ... produce higher specific impulse (a measure of fuel efficiency) than chemical rockets, which means they can achieve higher speeds and use less propellant.

As the heated propellant expands, it’s ultimately exhausted out of a nozzle in much the same way as in a traditional rocket. It’s also similar to the concept of nuclear thermal propulsion ...

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 ...