Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion ...

Get ready because the future of traveling to other planets just got a massive upgrade. Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based aerospace company, is developing a compact fusion engine called the Dual Direct ...

For over a century, rocket propulsion has followed a simple principle; burn fuel, expel it backward, and Newton's third law pushes you forward. Since Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first formulated the rocket ...

They say travel broadens your mind but, if you’re travelling into space, it could displace your brain. Results of new study add to a growing body of evidence that astronauts’ brains change position ...

As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of ...

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

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Elsayed Talaat is president and chief executive officer of the Universities Space Research Association. By any measure, the space race is back. But unlike the Cold War-era competition, decided by the ...