MIT research uncovers boiling's potential, driving advances in energy, cooling, and safety, with applications from power ...

As we set our sights on crewed Mars missions, we're going to have to consider some next-level rocket engines. One idea with a lot of potential is nuclear thermal propulsion.

NANO Nuclear Space (NNS) will focus on optimizing “ZEUS”, a solid core battery reactor, and “ODIN”, a low-pressure coolant reactor, for applications such as ...

‘Outer space’ is fast becoming the new economic ... lower propellant efficiency [currently not in use]; (2) Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP); and (3) Radioisotope Electric Propulsion (REP).

If they manage to pull that timeline off—and that is still a big if—a combined VASIMR and Kilopower-driven spacecraft would achieve the dream of Nuclear Electric Propulsion that excites many ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.

Figure 1- NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE). The First Vertically Integrated Portable Nuclear Microreactor Publicly Listed in ...

Mars is far away – around 140 millions from Earth on average. That means getting there is not only time-consuming, but very ...

When it comes to finding alien life on other planets, most astrobiologists will tell you to “follow the water ...