NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.
A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.
As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
Space agencies are moving closer to a new era of rocket propulsion that could fundamentally change deep-space travel. Nuclear ...
The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets ...