While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

WORKERS at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of ...

Scientists are debating multiple options to deal with an asteroid which could hit Earth in 2032 – but one is emerging as the ...

Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes ...

Rockets propelled by nuclear reactors could slash the time it takes us to get to Mars. The first humans to Mars might someday ride a rocket propelled by a nuclear reactor to their destination.

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NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), in what is ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

The measure could be taken to divert a space rock being monitored by the European Space Agency, which is expected to cross ...

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

Over 40% of respondents to an annual survey on what the future holds in the next ten years see a global conflict that could ...