The spaceship dramatically disintegrated over the Caribbean on Thursday. SpaceX has promised "a thorough investigation." ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

China's achievement is valuable for long-term space exploration, enabling self-sufficiency and enabling missions like a ...

China Manned Space Engineering Office. When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we ...

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...

A series of experiments on board China’s space station have for the first time produced oxygen and the ingredients for rocket fuel – key steps that are considered essential for human survival ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Nuclear Space Reactor Fuel Passes Key NASA Impact Tests is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN ...

MSD's pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) drug Winrevair has been accelerating at a breakneck pace since its launch earlier this year – and data from a new phase 3 study could give it a turbo ...

What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...

A fuel cell is a device that generates electric energy through electrochemical reactions between an oxidizing agent and a fuel – a material that stores energy in chemical form. Both species are ...