British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

Testing materials at exceptionally high temperatures is a first and a crucial step toward helping NASA mature and qualify ...

(CNN)– A nuclear-powered rocket could cut travel-time to Mars in half. That’s according to British startup Pulsar Fusion, which has unveiled a space rocket concept called ‘Sun-bird.’ It’s designed to ...

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

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...

The two California-based companies have formed a strategic partnership to develop the first commercial nuclear-powered ...

US startups ExLabs and Antares Industries, based in Southern California, have formed a strategic partnership to develop a ...

US Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new high-temperature testbed to advance research on nuclear thermal ...

Read about the new fuel coating technique being developed by ORNL to shield nuclear thermal propulsion system components from ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...