Russia's RS-24 Yars missile system conducts scheduled exercises in Mari El to enhance operational readiness and reinforce ...

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 ...

A DARPA official said the agency canceled a space nuclear propulsion project it was jointly developing with NASA as it was overtaken by lower launch costs.

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

US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

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

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.

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical rockets have begun to reach their theoretical maximum efficiency, and ...

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel and finding it can withstand extreme conditions.

Angry Astronaut describes a hypothetical nuclear thermal rocket assembled in orbit. He assumes a nuclear thermal rocket will be working by the end of 2030. He says the SpaceX approach to building a ...