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

The future of interplanetary travel is looking brighter, thanks to the new Sunbird nuclear-powered rocket designed by Pulsar ...

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

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...

Now, in a surprise reveal, the U.K.-based company Pulsar Fusion revealed a reusable fusion rocket concept known as the “sunbird.” Unlike rockets today, which launch from some terrestrial ...

With funding from the UK Space Agency, British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their ...

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket that, it claims, could significantly cut down the time it takes to travel to ...

The dream of nuclear fusion has been chased by some of the world’s brightest minds for decades. It’s easy to see why — replicating the inner workings of stars here on Earth would mean ...