Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s new nuclear engine could transform space travel forever

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.
The Daily Star

Nuclear Rockets Explained: How Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Could Transform Deep-Space Missions

Space agencies are moving closer to a new era of rocket propulsion that could fundamentally change deep-space travel. Nuclear ...
Interesting Engineering

How nuclear propulsion shaped early interstellar vehicle design

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.
Morning Overview on MSN

This nuked-pulse rocket could reach Alpha Centauri in 44 years

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...
AOL

Scientists create compact, room-temperature fusion reactor that fits on a tabletop

For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most approaches to fusion involve enormous machines designed to squeeze plasma ...
Forbes

Germany Shifts To Nuclear Fusion After Fukushima-Era Fission Policy

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...
Nature

Low-energy nuclear fusion boosted by electrochemistry

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...