The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

While we go about our days the Earth is constantly rotating through its own magnetic field. Now, experts claim it is possible to harvest clean energy from this natural rhythm.

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

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

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

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

NASA as well as Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson "We are very interested in nuclear fission - it's technology which is proven - and it's going to be a really big thing in the medium term, nuclear ...

NANO Nuclear Energy ... nuclear reactor industry. system and other power systems for extraterrestrial projects and human sustaining environments, and potentially propulsion technology for long ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system ... principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

Following the decision to decommission other weapons systems in 1998, Trident remains the only UK nuclear weapons system in active service. One of the UK's nuclear defence systems (Jeff J Mitchell ...