The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

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 ...

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

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power ...

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

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the environment, but the U.S. does not possess this type of engine test capability, ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

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

Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines to ammonia-heavy asteroids and redirecting the asteroids so that they crash into Mars and release the meteor's ammonia and ...