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.

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

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one ... through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives ...

Scientists in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications program conducted six ground tests of radioactive reactors in open air between 1964 and 1969, “which we could never get approved ...

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent A ...

engines and spacecraft?" said Angélique Roché, a journalist and content creator, who led the live countdown. "Excitement is in the air and, as you can see, so is the Saturn V rocket that took Am ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails ...