Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Other companies are working on nuclear fusion engines for space propulsion, including Pasadena-based Helicity Space, which received investment from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin in 2024. San ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

It uses nuclear fusion, the same energy process that powers the Sun, to produce incredible exhaust speeds. These speeds are key to reducing travel times between planets. For example, NASA’s New ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump aim to reach Mars and want to do so in the next few years. Well, the British aerospace company ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

The future of interplanetary travel is looking brighter, thanks to the new Sunbird nuclear-powered rocket designed by Pulsar ...

Sunbird could help spacecrafts reach speeds up to 805,000 kms per hour, which is faster than the Parker Solar Probe, the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Dinan, the CEO of a British firm leading the charge with the remarkable technology, says its adoption for ...