NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

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

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

NASA's MARVL project is developing a modular nuclear electric propulsion system for faster Mars travel. Robotic in-space assembly and advanced cooling tech could cut trip times in half.

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During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars ...

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

The next logical progression to space exploration would be sending people to Mars, but there are challenges to this, such as ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of ... One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor to generate electricity that ionizes, or ...

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 ...

For several decades, NASA has been committed to the exploration of planet Mars, and now scientists have decided to use nuclear fission energy as the main energy source for future manned missions.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have compared how PV or nuclear energy could power a crewed outpost for an extended period on Mars and have determined that solar offers the ...