Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

NASA has achieved a critical milestone in space exploration with the successful testing of advanced nuclear thermal ...

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.

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes ...

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 ...

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

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP ... produce higher specific impulse (a measure of fuel efficiency) than chemical rockets, which means they can achieve higher speeds and use less propellant.

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...