Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

NASA has achieved a critical milestone in space exploration with the successful testing of advanced nuclear thermal ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

The semileptonic decay channels of the Λc baryon can give important insights into weak interaction, but decay into a neutron, positron and electron neutrino has not been reported so far, due to ...

In other words, it’s engineering time. As engineers who have been working on fundamental science and applied engineering in nuclear fusion for decades, we’ve seen much of the science and ...

1958 also saw ARPA authorize the development of a liquid oxygen-hydrogen upper-stage rocket called Centaur, a version of which is still used in the launch industry today. In the mid-1960s ...

As we set our sights on crewed Mars missions, we're going to have to consider some next-level rocket engines. One idea with a lot of potential is nuclear thermal propulsion. 'Apocalyptic ...

Currently listed as launching no earlier than 1 a.m. Friday per the Space Coast Office of Tourism, Blue Origin's brand new orbital rocket promises to put on quite a performance when it launches. But ...