Amidst the push for clean energy worldwide, many people are vouching for small nuclear reactors, though there are still a ...

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

Nuclear energy could power the future. These three companies are best positioned to profit from the industry's expected boom.

NASA wants to send humans back to the moon, but one hurdle standing in its way is how to provide power; these fuel cells ...

According to the US Department of Energy, nuclear thermal propulsion can reduce travel times to Mars by up to 25% and, more importantly, limit a crew’s exposure to cosmic radiation. It would also ...

Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a $30 billion, 11-year, 79-launch architecture targeting a nuclear-powered permanent ...

NASA’s moon exploration plans call for nearly 80 launches, nearly 75 landers, 10 moon buggies and one nuclear reactor ...

Pacemakers are vital, life-saving technology held back by their limited battery life, but the solution to that problem may ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully tested a lithium-fed magneto.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than previous ion engines.

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few steps away from reality. Now NASA says that changes in 2028. The agency plans ...