The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear power solutions. Recently, two Southern California-based startups ...

A consortium of companies just completed its initial foray into an 11-year project that could put the first nuclear-powered space tug into space. The project is called RocketRoll, and it paves the ...

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

UK startup Pulsar Fusion is developing Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket that could drastically cut down journey times in space, shown here in an artist’s impression.

SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startups Exlabs and Antares announced a strategic partnership March 19 to develop a nuclear-powered spacecraft for deep-space missions.

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

Scientists and engineers are diligently working on innovative concepts to make the next era of human spaceflight more powerful and more efficient using nuclear propulsion. One of these designs, known ...

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

Nuclear-powered rocket concept could cut journey time to Mars in half By Jacopo Prisco, CNN 7 minute read Published 4:11 AM EDT, Thu April 3, 2025 Link Copied! Follow: ...

Nuclear-powered rocket concept could cut journey time to Mars in half. Jacopo Prisco, CNN. Thu, April 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM UTC. 8 min read. The dream of nuclear fusion has been chased by some of the ...