NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

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

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

NASA is testing futuristic, extreme fuel that will transport humans to Mars. They are testing nuclear fuel for future moon ...

Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant ... to nuclear-powered rocket engines. Such designs have long been suggested as a more efficient method of space travel and could cut ...

Any nuclear thermal propulsion fuel aboard a spacecraft would have to be able ... to-three times more efficiently than current rocket engines. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical ... gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.

There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might ...

On February 3rd, the research team from the KAIST Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering's Electric ... predict the performance of Hall thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.