Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, hosts a potentially habitable planet, Proxima B. Reaching it is a colossal ...

American space agency NASA announced it had completed a test campaign for the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s.

Cold-flow tests at NASA Marshall demonstrated the stability of a nuclear propulsion design aimed at reducing travel times to the moon and Mars.

The outperformance of gold over the 25 years can be broken up into distinct periods of outperformance and underperformance.

Russia is quietly testing a new space engine that could change everything about how we reach Mars. Early results suggest a ...

The Milky Way galaxy is a massive place, teeming with stars and planets. According to recent estimates, there are roughly 200 billion stars spanning about 100,000 light-years. And with the recent ...

MIT master’s student Taylor Hampson is advancing research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), thanks in part to a NASA-sponsored initiative. Nuclear propulsion could dramatically shorten travel ...

Meta said it has secured agreements with energy companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, which are working on nuclear power technologies. They're planning to work together to eventually power Meta's ...

Kyiv was among the hardest-hit areas, where 40 facilities were damaged. Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with a massive barrage of 242 drones and 36 missiles, including one that was nuclear-capable, ...

Donald Trump may allow America’s last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with Russia to lapse. “If it expires, it expires,” he told The New York Times of the agreement, which runs out on 5 February ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...