UK-based Pulsar Fusion has achieved its first plasma in the exhaust system of its ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s ...

NASA announced a mission to Mars using nuclear electric propulsion. How does it differ from earlier missions that utilized nuclear power in a different way?

A UK startup successfully ignited plasma inside a nuclear fusion rocket prototype, marking progress toward advanced propulsion for future deep-space missions.

UK startup Pulsar Fusion has fired the first plasma through its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket prototype, demonstrating the ...

Sunbird fusion propulsion reaches first plasma as Pulsar Fusion tests a key exhaust system, marking a major step toward faster space travel.

Moving an object in space is very energy-consuming, even once a spacecraft has escaped the gravity well of a planet. This is ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

Astronomers have spotted a second planet taking shape from the material orbiting a young star — only the second such example ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the ancient solar system looked like.