A nuclear rocket engine which could halve the flight time to Mars is now under construction at Pulsar Fusion.

It's an interesting combination of inertial confinement fusion (IEC) and lattice confinement fusion (LCF). So put the jokes of fusion power always being 30 years away to the side.

Explosions get you much more bang from your fuel buck than combustion – if your engine can withstand them. NASA believes the rotating detonation engine could be the future of deep space travel ...

Venus Aerospace partners with NASA to advance hypersonic engine reliability and efficiency through a revolutionary new rotating detonation rocket engine.

However, rather than require either the plutonium-238 radioisotope heat source or an enriched uranium-235 fission reactor, with significant launch safety costs, we propose making use of the recent ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and beyond.

One of the 14 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I grants went this month to the idea of a probe powered by lattice confinement fusion ...

Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission (Theresa Benyo, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland) ...

Related: NASA and DARPA will build a nuclear rocket by 2027 Pellet-beam propulsion and nuclear engine concepts will be investigated for possible application to space transportation.

According to a proposal by Dr. Theresa Benyo (a physicist and the principal investigator of the lattice confinement fusion project at NASA’s Glenn Research Center), a possible solution is to use ...