Nuclear rockets are moving from Cold War concept to near-term hardware, and the shift could reshape how quickly and safely ...

J eff Bezos’ Blue Origin has announced the participants on its next space tourist flight, the 37th launch for the New Shepard ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and ...

A new study published this month has issued an urgent call for future endeavors in space exploration to take nuclear space travel seriously. Similar to a previous study which called for scientists to ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

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"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

On the Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Are humans on the precipice of not only being visitors to outer space, but also becoming permanent residents? Namrata Goswami, ...

THE USS Enterprise they are not. One looks like a magic-marker pen, except that it is 58km long. The second, a pair of conjoined Ferris wheels. And the third, a giant jellyfish. They are, nevertheless ...

Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science fiction, but scientists are racing to develop new, more efficient methods of space travel - and ...