On the other side of a protective wall of shipping containers, a donut-shaped ring of super-heated ... high-powered pistons), ...

Considering the incredible inefficiency of even the best chemical rocket ... radiation belt, a ring of charged particles around the Earth that are kept in place by Earth’s magnetic field.

In the first installment, we looked at how nuclear fission and nuclear fusion will likely become ... These are channeled by a magnetic nozzle to generate thrust, gradually pushing a spacecraft ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

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

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. The concept ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are harnessing the power of computers to ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

A secretive UK-based startup has just pulled back the curtain on a futuristic space propulsion project that sounds like ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the time it takes to travel across our solar system — and, maybe, beyond it.

An incredible £50m nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists over the past decade has been unveiled for the very first time. Pulsar Fusion’s ‘Sunbird’ concept will halve the ...