While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

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

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

In 2023, NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced they're working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, so that NASA can send a crewed spacecraft to Mars. The agency ...

Chemical engines put the first satellite into space ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that ...

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.