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A Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to MarsWhat if a spacecraft could get to Mars in half the time it currently takes?Every 26 months or so, Mars and Earth are close enough for a shorter…

But figuring out what to do with a ship’s reactor is far from the only hurdle. People need to be convinced of the safety of nuclear energy and technology, says Alves de Andrade. Despite…

On January 25, 2023, NASA announced the initiation of a collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an engine that will power the…

Multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years as space exploration has been renewed in this era. Both NASAand China are also planning to send crewed…

The nuclear reactor being developed by Chinese scientists has an umbrella-like folding design to dissipate the excess heat energy into the surrounding space, while liquid…

Credit: US Navy/Wikimedia Commons The Australian government has just declared an historic…

The UK space agency is aiming to send a spacecraft to Mars in roughly half the time it takes now to reach the Red Planet, using nuclear powered-engines to be built by Rolls Royce. It said…