Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to achieving that dream.

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

But don't count rockets out just yet. NASA is developing engines powered by nuclear fission to send astronauts to Mars! Nuclear-powered rockets would be more efficient for long-distance space ...

Alongside its proposed nuclear-tipped spacecraft, NASA is also exploring gentler asteroid ... array of hyper-technologies - including super-rockets that can be speedily assembled - that could ...

Among nuclear rockets, those using nuclear fission ... gigawatt-scale lasers – arrays of smaller lasers in the 100kw to megawatt class). There is a NASA NIAC proposal to beam power to ship (tens of ...

The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies ...