A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...
NextBigFuture11d
Solar System Travel With Advanced Propulsion
If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...
World Nuclear News14d
Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
Nuclear Engineering International6d
Pulsar unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
Scientific American19d
NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacec ...
The News & Advance9d
Campbell approves $81,000 incentive for BWXT
The Campbell County Board of Supervisors approved an $81,000 incentive for BWX Technologies' investment of $19 million and 26 ...
Science Daily7d
Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
Forbes22d
Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
An asteroid strike on Earth could exceed the destructive power of an all-out nuclear war, triggering ... [+] earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires that crisscross continents. (Illustration by Tobias ...