Revelations that China intends to supply Iran with rocket fuel goes against UK's Middle East policy and casts further doubt ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Iranian cargo ships allegedly carrying chemicals to make missile propellent are setting sail from China to deliver the shipment to Tehran's army.

Citing intelligence from security services of two Western countries, the report specifies that the Golbon and Jairan ships, sailing under the Iranian flag, will transport over 1,000 tons of sodium ...

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

Since then, they’ve moved to an office with real desks, gone through Y Combinator, and, today, announced an oversubscribed $6.3 million seed round led by Initialized Capital. The company is planning a ...

Iranian cargo vessels will reportedly carry over 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate, a key ingredient to make missile ...

China Manned Space Engineering Office. When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...