NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) have successfully tested a new nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) ...

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

Could nuclear propulsion be the breakthrough that takes humans to Mars more efficiently? This deep dive explores the ...

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 ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft ... this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system ...

Present-day spaceships, no matter if they're meant to carry people or not, are powered either by solar energy or chemical fuel, or a combination of the two. But if we are to expand humankind's ...

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

The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP ... The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, were deemed a success.

The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its ... a spokesperson at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, tells Aviation Week. While “cost-effective ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.