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 ...

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

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

An artist's conception shows the Supernova spacecraft in orbit. (Portal Space Systems Illustration) Bothell, Wash.-based ...

NASA and DARPA are developing a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could shorten travel time to Mars and make space ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) has opened 170,000 square-foot Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia. The facility will ...

Beamed power to ion drives or laser thermal rockets could work but demands advanced infrastructure, reducing near-term feasibility. 1. Nuclear Pulse Propulsion (e.g., Project Orion) Description: This ...

From concept to reality, the Advanced Technologies team designs, builds and tests new nuclear solutions-from powering ...

Brandon Wilson, Bryan Conry, Pavel Shilenko and Emily Hutchins gather around the Ohio State University Research Reactor ...

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.