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 ...

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

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant ...

Once again, nuclear power seemed hopeless, at least in the U.S. Yet over the same period, China built 13 similar reactors, ...

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

You can feel the buzz: nuclear is back. Or so we’re told. From Brussels to Washington, a new wave of enthusiasm for so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is sweeping through policy circles, think ...

The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) aircraft carrier has just completed testing its advanced nuclear propulsion system. With 23 ...

Reusing fuel could help alleviate a worsening supply-chain issue and a threat to new nuclear technology. Efforts to stand up nuclear fuel recycling projects accelerated this month with two major ...

The Trump administration wants to sharply speed up the construction of nuclear power plants, but fixing the industry’s ...