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

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

British startup Pulsar Fusion has announced the development and testing of new reusable missiles with engines powered by nuclear fusion ... orbital satellite docks will be created for these rockets, ...

NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...

Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that ... spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a reputation in ...

A British start-up has unveiled an ambitious project that could transform space exploration. Their idea? Using nuclear fusion ...

BWX Technologies, Inc's new facility in Lynchburg has been built with support from local and state tax grants and will be ...

But don't count rockets out just yet. NASA is developing engines powered by nuclear fission to send astronauts to Mars! Nuclear-powered rockets would be more efficient for long-distance space ...

Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... ISP at the best ion drive levels or beyond and operating with hundreds of gigawatts of power. The weaker NSWR engine analysis assumed a very low ...