The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

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

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade ... nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes the trip in just half ...

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

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 ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

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

Whether the material for constructing the factories could be shipped to Mars or made from Martian elements is being debated. Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

Nuclear power generation is on the rise worldwide. The use of nuclear energy is also being investigated in the space sector.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...