"This agreement enables closer collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy to deliver the capabilities necessary ...

Executives from nuclear energy provider Zeno Power share their predictions for their industry in the coming year.

In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...

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

"Close to the end of the third stage [burn], we are seeing a little more disturbance in the vehicle roll rates, and ...

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

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

Japan’s H3 rocket lifted off for its seventh mission on Sunday, but an engine failure foiled its attempt to insert a navigation satellite in geostationary orbit. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

According to India Today Science Desk, private Indian space firm Agnikul Cosmos has successfully fired dual indigenous 3D printed rocket engines in a landmark test, marking a major step forward for ...

In the late 1990s, Ukrainian microbiologist Nelli Zhdanova led a research team into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. More than a decade had passed since the reactor meltdown and explosion of 1986, which ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct Jared Isaacman's title at Shift4 Payments and the body that confirmed his appointment. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ...

Pittsburgh aerospace startup Astrobotic just landed $17.5 million in government contracts to advance reusable rockets. Using Small Business Innovation Research grants — two from NASA and one from the ...