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

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

The U.S. Navy reported that the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large merchant vessel Wednesday night in the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt.

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

During the height of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project in the 1950s ... By adjusting the reactor’s pulse mode, researchers could simulate a range of radioactive conditions over 15 orders of ...

Russian scientists have unveiled an ambitious new plasma engine that could drastically cut the travel time to Mars, reducing ...

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

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

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...

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 ...