Pulsar Fusion has introduced Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that could significantly cut space travel time.

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

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

Chinese team found that magnesium enhances scramjet engine performance by enabling explosive combustion at hypersonic speeds.

By maintaining a robust and modern ICBM force, Russia aims to deter potential aggressors and preserve strategic parity with ...

The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...

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

With GE Aerospace securing a new Air Force engine contract for foreign military sales of its F110 engines, we explore how the ...

As humanity’s ambitions to send humans to Mars grow, the challenge of getting there in a timely and safe manner becomes more ...

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 ...