America's space dominance has been built largely in Louisiana and Mississippi. But the current budget could mean cuts for the ...

The Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket (CNTR) is a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) concept designed to heat propellant ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical ...

NASA is inviting you to sit by a homey, rocket-powered hearth this holiday season. The space agency created a virtual fireplace lit by the engines of its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket ...

NASA has developed a revolutionary new rocket engine that’s 20-30% more efficient than anything else out there. Additive manufacturing techniques like 3D printing can make rockets quicker and ...

Houston-based Venus Aerospace flew a rotating detonation rocket engine last week, proving a key technology for the high-speed ...

Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace have given a name to the future medium-lift rocket they plan to build: Eclipse.

Still, this new kind ... rockets. NASA recently announced a collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space to ...

Read The numbers are notable - 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St ...

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the aim was to develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027, adding: "With the help of this new technology ... the last ...