LMT's DRACO project cut by budget slashes, but its deep NASA ties and NEP work keep its space ambitions alive.

The US Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has cancelled the Demonstration ...

As we set our sights on crewed Mars missions, we're going to have to consider some next-level rocket engines. One idea with a lot of potential is nuclear thermal propulsion.

Scientists have proposed two experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system ...

Introduction -- Rocket engine fundamentals -- Nuclear rocket engine cycles -- Interplanetary mission analysis -- Basic nuclear structure and processes -- Neutron flux energy distribution -- Neutron ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. began focusing on nuclear propulsion as an effective way to power space exploration with projects ...

As President Trump ordered the US military to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s ...

US boosts arms aid to Israel as vital support for regional stabilityIran escalates with Qassem Basir missile, targeting Israel and U.S. baseTehran fu ...

Finally, we will get to see a test of the IVO quantum drive which is a propellentless drive. If it is successful in raising ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...