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

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

Nuclear fusion involves merging light atomic nuclei to release colossal energy. On Earth, fission reactors, such as tokamaks, aim to fuse deuterium and tritium to produce continuous energy. In space, ...

able to dock on to spacecraft and propel them at high speed over vast distances. Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a compact nuclear fusion engine providing both thrust and electrical power for ...

Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster — and hotter. UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is ... complete with a rendering of the fusion engine and point-to-point docking system. Once perched in a space dock, ...

UK's Pulsar Fusion reveals Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket promising to cut Mars travel time in half. Could this be the ...

Exclusive: RocketStar CEO Christopher Craddock is accused of brazen financial wrongdoing, but his attorney told The ...

A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...