Already with the naval forces of Portugal, Türkiye, Greece, and South Korea, these conventional submarines can stay ...

Growing environmental pressures are reviving interest in nuclear propulsion as a potential long-term route to decarbonize shipping, DNV said in a new paper, despite there being no civilian ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

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 ...

Shifting environmental requirements are "reigniting interest" in nuclear propulsion as a long-term solution for maritime decarbonisation, according to Norwegian classification society DNV. However, it ...

Long before anyone talked seriously about crewed Mars landings, NASA was already sketching nuclear propulsion concepts that could change everything. In this episode, we trace how nuclear thermal and ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Every year, companies and space agencies launch ...