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

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 ...

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shelter above the sarcophagus covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, Saturday, Apr. 16, 2022.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

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

The leaders held bilateral talks following the high-level political segment of the AI Action Summit in Paris. They also ...

Sources embedded in Iran uncover "large scale" personnel and operations affiliated with Iran's nuclear program are now ...