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

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 ...

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars ... Nuclear has better ISP and thrust specs so we ...

NASA is testing futuristic, extreme fuel that will transport humans to Mars. They are testing nuclear fuel for future moon ...

Any nuclear thermal propulsion fuel aboard a spacecraft ... NTP rockets is that they could be much faster than the rockets we use today, which are propelled by traditional chemical fuel.

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor ... a long way off from building a proper rocket propulsion system. But if General Atomics ...

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

Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, ...