A South Korean shipbuilder is pushing forward with plans for a large nuclear-powered containership, aiming to leverage ...

The Navy's Sixth Fleet said in a statement that the carrier collided with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M just before midnight local time while operating near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea ...

Could nuclear propulsion be the breakthrough that takes humans to Mars more efficiently? This deep dive explores the ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

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

USS Harry S. Truman, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, crashed with a merchant vessel in the Suez Canal – one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. The 1,092-foot Nimitz-class carrier collided with ...

While nuclear energy has been used in naval vessels, its adoption in commercial shipping has been hindered by regulatory and ...

The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans ...

The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its time frame for an on-orbit demonstration. Credit: Lockheed Martin A vision to accelerate U.S. access to cislunar space and the ...

But before that can happen, nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technologies still have quite a way to go before we could blast astronauts through space on a nuclear rocket. However, earlier this ...

Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design ...

NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions forward.