The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

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 ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power ...

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

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines to ammonia-heavy asteroids and redirecting the asteroids so that they crash into Mars and release the meteor's ammonia and ...

Rather than cram the whole system into an existing rocket, this would allow ... and human exploration using nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion.

Advanced propulsion technologies, such as ion engines and nuclear thermal rockets, are also being explored for future space exploration missions.