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 ...

TerraPower, a leading nuclear innovation company, and SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology consulting company, ...

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft toward Mars in 2028, carrying three helicopters designed to retrieve rock ...

Discover how Microsoft and NVIDIA use AI and digital twins to accelerate nuclear plant permitting, design, and operations.

UK space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has conducted the first test of a prototype exhaust system for a nuclear fusion rocket engine that could dramatically cut transit times for missions to Mars ...

HD Hyundai and ABS have launched a joint design for a 16,000-TEU nuclear-powered container ship using SMR electric propulsion ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...

The Uncertainty Engine is guiding research in fusion plasma physics. Could similar approaches benefit fission research as ...

Countries around the world are continually looking for ways to minimize their reliance on dirty energy sources such as coal, oil, and gas while still providing their citizens with all they need.

College students at Kansas State University are increasingly eyeing careers in nuclear technology. So the school has relaunched a bachelor’s degree that originally blazed a trail in the U.S. for ...