NASA's NIAC program is investing in visionary ideas that could revolutionize space exploration. From fusion-powered ...

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Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical rockets. Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

“It will be the first to bring fast chemical rockets together with efficient electric propulsion powered by a nuclear ...

China’s artificial sun just broke its own record, bringing us a step closer to a world with limitless energy.

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

“A kilogram of matter-antimatter annihilation releases a whopping energy that’s over 250 times greater than that of nuclear fusion and ... in antimatter and space-travel research, the duo says that ...