Fusion engine fires plasma in UK test, marking a key step toward faster space travel and next generation rocket propulsion ...

A new kind of space engine could change how we explore the solar system, and it's powered by the same force that lights up the stars. A British startup called Pulsar Fusion is working on a nuclear ...

Pulsar Fusion, a propulsion startup based in England, announced last week it is partnering with the University of Michigan to research electric Hall-effect thruster tech. The UK Space Agency is ...

Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based firm attempting to unlock nuclear fusion to power space travel, is opening its first U.S. location in the Austin area. The company announced Monday that it's searching 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 time it ...

Earlier this year, NASA and DARPA announced the goal to field a nuclear fission-powered spacecraft capable of ferrying human crews from Earth to Mars expediently sometime before this decade is out. If ...

Pulsar Fusion will make a linear nuclear fusion rocket propulsion system. They will heat hydrogen plasma with microwaves to create fusion propulsion. They will perform laboratory tests next year and ...

Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based firm attempting to unlock nuclear fusion to power space travel, has picked Austin for its U.S. location. The company said Monday it’s searching for roughly 50,000 square ...