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 ...

MIT master’s student Taylor Hampson is advancing research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), thanks in part to a NASA-sponsored initiative. Nuclear propulsion could dramatically shorten travel ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) work differently from conventional designs. Typical rocket engines rely on a ...

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 ...

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

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 ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...