British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

Pulsar Fusion has introduced Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that could significantly cut space travel time.

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

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

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and propel them at high speed over vast distances. Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half.

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird ... to Pluto in four years — less than half the time it took NASA’s New Horizons mission, which was powered by regular ion thrusters.

Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a compact nuclear fusion engine providing both thrust ... Dinan outlined the concept at Space-Comm Expo in London, which also featured speakers from the European Space ...

NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar, known by the rather prosaic name of PSR B1509-58. "The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into ...