Nuclear rockets are moving from Cold War concept to near-term hardware, and the shift could reshape how quickly and safely ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day ...

From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration ...

The first humans to Mars might someday ride a rocket propelled by a nuclear reactor to their destination. But before that can happen, nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technologies still have quite a ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with ...

Space exploration has always relied on the continuous improvement of spacecraft propulsion systems. As humanity dreams of ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable voyages to the farthest reaches of the solar system. A team from Ohio State ...

From back: Brandon Wilson, Bryan Conry, Pavel Shilenko and Emily Hutchins gather around the Ohio State University Research Reactor before performing irradiation testing of the coated surrogate ...

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Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...