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

Many years before President Trump expressed his intention to send an American crewed mission to Mars, Wernher von Braun ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor ... systems capable of taking humans to Mars in just 45 days. This is huge news because sending ...

Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for ...

Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of ... One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor to generate electricity that ionizes, or ...

However, he warned that the worst could be coming. “We are probably closer to nuclear war than at any point in the last 40 years,” Belfield asserted. “Putin might seek to break with nuclear ...

Knowing for a while now that it's going to head for Mars and elsewhere, NASA started not long ago looking into nuclear power as a means to push spacecraft, more specifically into something called ...

Why it matters: The journey all the way to Mars and back exacts a huge toll in ... NASA is working on a nuclear electric propulsion system that would involve robotically assembling a space ...

While there is no immediate sign of nuclear warheads being used in the Russia-Ukraine war, the risks of a nuclear exchange are surely at their highest for 40 years. So why is there so little ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) have announced the partnership to enable fast and reliable human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond.