Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs are both nuclear weapons that can cause mass destruction. Most US nuclear weapons today were made in the 1950s and 1960s and are H-bombs. H-bombs are more powerful, ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

In the quest to safely generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a giant step closer. Scientists in Gansu province in the country's west have achieved the milestone of reloading fuel to an ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Current chemical propulsion systems necessitate prolonged transit times for crewed Mars missions, driving the exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a more efficient alternative to ...

Researchers have employed Bayesian neural network approaches to evaluate the distributions of independent and cumulative ...