I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

From plasma engines that could turn months of travel into weeks to the first blueprints for ships that will outlive their ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...

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VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From April 7 to 11, the third International Conference on Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST-2025), hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency ...

NEW YORK, NY, December 1, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Jay Yu, founder, chairman, and president of NANO Nuclear Energy Inc, opens new tab. (Nasdaq: NNE, opens new tab), is positioning the advanced nuclear ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States originally pioneered nuclear energy technology during a time of great peril. We now face a new set of challenges, including a global race to dominate in ...

When nuclear energy is mentioned, most people think about nuclear power plants, but did you know that nuclear technology fuels some of the most advanced ships in the world? Nuclear energy plays a ...