This only left enough power to accomplish the ... energy density than batteries. While Rocket Lab has managed to find a workable combination of battery weight versus payload capacity in this ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the time it takes to travel across our solar system — and, maybe, beyond it.

Inspired by this idea, researchers in Ohio have developed a small battery powered by nuclear waste. They exposed scintillator crystals—a material that emits light when it absorbs radiation—to ...

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The super heavy rockets were built and used for ...

For SpaceX, the Korean battery-maker will develop batteries for the power supply units and energy storage systems of SpaceX's ...

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...