Arizona’s three largest electric utilities are teaming up to explore ways to meet rising demand through the expanded use of ...

Arizona's electric utilities are planning for more nuclear power as part of a new look for this energy source and the possibility of small reactors.

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

The 2022 Artemis-1 test flight was successful in its mission to send an unmanned satellite around the lunar orbit and return ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew for sure!

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Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will review that the nuclear thermal rocket program ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two ...

In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans into deep space at unprecedented speeds. NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear ...

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor ... though anything could be used, including water. This is because the propellant doesn't provide ...