Mars nuclear rocket: Researchers at Ohio State University say they’ve hit a breakthrough that could reshape how humans travel through space. Their new concept, a centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket, or ...

I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

New details of the Trump administration’s plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House’s desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine that could have ...

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Denis Kutovoy, deputy director of the corporation’s space systems department, made this announcement at the Russian Space Forum MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. Russia’s Roscosmos, together with the Kurchatov ...

MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The preliminary design for the Nuklon nuclear-powered propulsion system has been completed, Dmitry Bakanov, CEO of the Roscosmos State Space Corporation, said at a meeting of ...