A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes ...

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

A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket. A conservative design for the rocket would be fueled by salts of 20 percent enriched uranium or plutonium. The ...

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

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

As the heated propellant expands, it’s ultimately exhausted out of a nozzle in much the same way as in a traditional rocket. It’s also similar to the concept of nuclear thermal propulsion ...

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.