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

A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

But for missions farther from the sun, where the sunlight is fainter, nuclear ... place to protect a spacecraft from these backscattered electrons, their behavior in an ion-engine plume must ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

The nuclear engines had already passed every test on ... In the late 1950s Dyson worked on Project Orion, which aimed to build a manned spacecraft that could go to Mars and the moons of Saturn.

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

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 ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best candidate is the Nuclear ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...