Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Chemical engines put the first satellite into space ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

Egor Biriulin, who works at Rosatom’s scientific institute in Troitsk, explained to a Russian newspaper per Gizmodo that this engine can speed up particles to an incredible 100 kilometers per second.

Pulsar Fusion's ambitious goal is to construct the largest and most practical nuclear fusion rocket engine to date. Their 8-meter fusion chamber, set to ignite in 2027, aims to generate ...

That's 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would reach during a boost maneuver. The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

According to NASA's estimates, spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best ...