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NASA in collaboration with the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking a nuclear propulsion system that could potentially cut down the travel time to Mars by half.

China's moon rocket inches a step further in development, as the country test fires new rocket engine.

In this week's Watch this Space column, we discuss a former US intelligence officer's allegations that the country posesses UFOs, a high-energy jet of particles sent towards Earth by a distant supermassive black hole, and NASA's plans for a nuclear rocket engine.

Read the latest DARPA headlines, on NewsNow: the one-stop shop for DARPA news

Called DRACO, the in-space propulsion system could revolutionize the way we travel to distant locations.

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The incident took place about one minute after the ground test for the second-stage engine began. | World News