NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...

NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) have successfully tested a new nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) ...

NASA is testing futuristic, extreme fuel that will transport humans to Mars. They are testing nuclear fuel for future moon ...

A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

That tech maturation plan was run out of the agency’s Space Nuclear Propulsion project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded the ...

SpaceX on Friday morning launched 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

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