Imagine cutting a trip to Mars in half. That’s the promise of Sunbird, a groundbreaking nuclear fusion rocket concept ...

Musk—who has a history of setting unrealized goals for his companies—says he wants to send humans to Mars by 2029, though he ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...

An incredible £50m nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists ... concept will halve the time it takes for missions to Mars from seven to eight months to just four months, redefining ...

Pulsar Fusion in Bletchley has brought space propulsion technology out of stealth with the unveiling of Sunbird, a nuclear ...

The Sunbird Migratory Transfer Vehicle is designed to cut mission times to Mars by half while offering a reusable, ...

Elon Musk has revealed an ambitious plan to send Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, aboard SpaceX's Starship on a ...

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...