A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans into deep space at unprecedented speeds. NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), in what is considered ...

The impulse generated is not as immediately forceful as a chemical rocket, but ion engines require ... where the sunlight is fainter, nuclear power in the form of radioisotope thermoelectric ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel ...