The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion just revealed a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that could halve travel time across the solar system.

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

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket. Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General ...

Russia’s new plasma engine could reach Mars in just 30 days. Russia's new plasma rocket engine is engineered to cut the ...

Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science fiction, but scientists are racing to develop new, more efficient methods of space travel ...

Developed in complete secrecy by Pulsar’s in-house team, Sunbird to be presented at the Space-Comm EXPO on March 11th at ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey. This latest batch of tests was conducted at the compact fuel element ...