NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too-distant ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could transform space travel—a new nuclear fuel capable of powering rockets to ...

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

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel ...

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its time frame for an on-orbit demonstration. Credit: Lockheed Martin A vision to accelerate U.S. access to cislunar space and the ...

deep space science missions, and human exploration using nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion.