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 Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

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

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

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

As we set our sights on crewed Mars missions, we're going to have to consider some next-level rocket engines. One idea with a lot of potential is nuclear thermal propulsion. 'Apocalyptic ...

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

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

NASA is working on a nuclear electric propulsion system that ... squeeze something that massive into the narrow confines of a rocket. Even fully compacted, the radiator would be too big and ...