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 ...

By the year 2035, NASA plans to send humans to Mars. But it would be about a nine-month trip with our current rocket ...

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 ...

EIGHT years from now a planetary probe could boost itself out of Earth’s orbit, fire up its fission reactors and head off on a nuclear-powered quest for alien life beneath the crust of one of ...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...