Within 90 days, the Pentagon must brief the White House’s science and technology policy office, management and budget office, ...

The White House has launched a coordinated federal initiative to deploy nuclear reactors in space, directing NASA and the ...

Idaho National Laboratory has built a reactor-physics simulation stack called Griffin that INL says is being used in NASA-related nuclear power modeling work and to help accelerate the path toward ...

UK rocket startup demonstrates world first plasma in nuclear fusion breakthrough - Nuclear fusion rockets could cut journey times to Mars from months to weeks ...

The United States and private space companies are advancing ambitious lunar and deep-space programs centered on nuclear power systems. Nuclear technologies, including radioisotope systems and fission ...

In the 1960s, the United States won the space race decisively by planting the American flag firmly on the moon. Over the next ...

NASA will soon initiate a program to develop a mid-power space reactor with a lunar fission surface power (FSP) variant ready ...

UK space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has conducted the first test of a prototype exhaust system for a nuclear fusion rocket engine that could dramatically cut transit times for missions to Mars ...