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

Between 1963 and 1972, these efforts bore fruit with the creation of the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA), a slow-fission solid core nuclear reactor designed for long-range ...

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

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

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

Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) is a rocket that uses known physics and ... levels or beyond and operating with hundreds of gigawatts of power. The weaker NSWR engine analysis assumed a very low ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... (an oriented long-chain polyethylene), hanging behind the rocket. The engines ...

(gentle electronic music) From space elevators to nuclear engines, the future of space travel might look very different from the rocket launches we're used to. Maybe one day, chemical rockets will ...