A U.K. startup called Pulsar Fusion has recently unveiled a project it has been developing “in complete secrecy” for the past decade: nuclear fusion-powered rockets called Sunbirds. The company teased ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos. The European Space Agency ...

More advanced Mars probes and rovers in the ensuing years have confirmed the presence of native organic compounds on the red planet in chlorinated form. Schulze-Makuch writes that life on Mars ...

Pulsar Fusion believes the Sunbird can slash the time it takes to reach Mars by half and carry spacecraft across vast distances using a unique docking and towing system. Unlike rockets that launch ...

Courtesy of Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center The Hope probe, also known as the Emirates Mars Mission, comes on the heels of rapid innovation in the UAE space sector over the past decade.