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

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

UK's Pulsar Fusion reveals Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket promising to cut Mars travel time in half. Could this be the ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion ... reaction emits some assorted particles. https://www.youtube.com ...

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

And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes ... uranium with neutrons—neutrally charged particles—they found barium, an element roughly half ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

The research team attributed this behavior to cosmic-ray showers, which are high-energy particles from space ... signals similar to those from a nuclear explosion; it is important to be able ...

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

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Seventy years ago, in the early years of the Cold War, East and West were locked in a nuclear arms race. The UK government needed somewhere to test its first rockets capable of carrying a nuclear ...