Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new ...

Scientists propose using relativistic electron beams to propel spacecraft, offering a new hope for interstellar travel within ...

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

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012.

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

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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 ...

Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system, a type of nuclear rocket. According to GA-EMS president Scott Forney ...