NASA and the U.S. military plan to test a nuclear-powered rocket engine in space as early as 2027, potentially revolutionizing how people travel the cosmos in the coming decades.. The two agencies ...

NASA and DARPA have announced Lockheed Martin and BWX Technologies have won contracts to build and test a nuclear thermal rocket. If successful, NASA believes this design could power human ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck are among the entrepreneurs excited about nuclear-powered rockets, but neither company is developing the technology.

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...

Scientists have proposed two experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system ...

A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the US Department of Defense, and NASA are ...

A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. Posted 2023-01-24T21:36:16+00:00 - Updated 2023-01-24T21:34:28+00:00 By ...

Research into nuclear thermal rocket engines by NASA began in 1959. A key program in the 1960s, called the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, even sought to demonstrate the technology ...