US engineers have tested a thermal propulsion reactor fuel at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre with the aim for it to be ...

ESA is revolutionizing access to Mars with its LightShip initiative, focusing on small, cost-effective spacecraft. This new ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

The next logical progression to space exploration would be sending people to Mars, but there are challenges to this, such as ...

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

Sen. Jerry Stevenson wants Utah to explore the viability of building a spaceport in the state and competing for the piece of ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

The travel time to Mars also depends on the technological developments of propulsion systems. According to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's website, the ideal lineup for a launch to Mars would ...