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Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable voyages to the farthest reaches of the solar system. A team from Ohio State ...

While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

For decades, NASA has dreamed of building a rocket powerful enough to take humans to Mars - and now, that dream might finally come true. The agency is developing a nuclear-powered engine that could ...

Bechtel‘s plant machinery business has secured a potential $575.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for various naval nuclear propulsion components. The Defense Department said ...

Bechtel™s plant machinery division has secured a potential $393 million contract to continue to supply nuclear propulsion components to the U.S. Navy. Bechtel will perform contract work in New York ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable voyages to the farthest reaches of the solar system. A team from Ohio State ...