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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant ... to nuclear-powered rocket engines. Such designs have long been suggested as a more efficient method of space travel and could cut ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

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

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