A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...

How can nuclear propulsion help improve deep space missions by significantly reducing the amount of time to reach Mars and beyond? This is what a recent study published in Acta Astronautica hopes to ...

In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint measured in weeks. The most ambitious concepts on the table promise crewed trips ...

Artificial intelligence is moving from the control room into the engine bell, reshaping how rockets are designed, steered and powered. Instead of treating propulsion as a fixed piece of hardware, ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – New developments in nuclear thermal propulsion technologies may soon enable advanced space missions to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Leading these advances are researchers ...