Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different. Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science ...

Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket ... and test the whole setup. Duration: 5-7 years Outcome: A ready-to-use NSWR for advanced missions, like trips to Mars or beyond.

UK startup Pulsar Fusion just revealed a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that ... an Earth to Saturn mission would take ...

It would require three Starship flights just to deliver such a solar array to Mars, and it would then be a major burden to deploy and maintain. A more practical alternative would be to use nuclear ...

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings ... At some point in the Red Planet’s 4.5 to 4.6 billion year history, the iron bound up in ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — lined up on the same side of the sun. Dury photographed this rare cosmic event from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, U.K. The next time this s type of ...

The race to develop a powerful rocket engine capable of reaching Mars in just 30 to 60 days has ... Traditional rockets are limited to speeds of around 4.5 km per second due to combustion ...

The spacecraft weighs only 440 pounds (200 kilograms) and measures 11.5 feet (3.5 meters ... including for missions to Mars, Saturn, and the Moon. With the LTM’s components being produced by various ...

The term space station was coined by Hermann Oberth, a Romanian Rocket pioneer ... an S-IVB upper stage and launched it on the last Saturn V in May of 1973. The space station would go on to ...