The Museum of Flight will host a July 22 presentation with Dr. Roger Myers exploring nuclear electric propulsion, NASA's Mars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two United States based firms have entered into a partnership to advance high-power nuclear electric propulsion technology for ...

If a rocket carrying a nuclear reactor explodes on its way to deep space, ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a ...

Propulsion technologies are the key to exploring the outer solar system, and many organizations have been working on novel ones. One with a long track record is the Ad Astra Rocket Company, which has ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

It has long become obvious that if we are to expand our reach into the solar system, the current means of propulsion for spaceships would simply not do. With such goals set for the near future, the ...

A consortium led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel has completed the European Space Agency-commissioned RocketRoll project on nuclear electric propulsion for space exploration. The consortium has ...

Present-day spaceships, no matter if they're meant to carry people or not, are powered either by solar energy or chemical fuel, or a combination of the two. But if we are to expand humankind's ...

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea." ...