NASA announced plans March 24 to develop Space Reactor 1 (SR-1) Freedom, a mission to Mars demonstrating nuclear electric propulsion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is working on a streamlined ...

Last week, NASA held a press conference to lay out to the public its plans for establishing a Moon Base that will one day see ...

In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.

For future NASA missions to Mars, this new helicopter vehicle will be key to surveying the planet's surface for all sorts of ...

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One notorious reactor caused an international incident in 1978 after it came ...

NASA has announced a formal realignment of its internal organizational structure, a move that ...

With demonstration projects now underway, including a nuclear-powered LNG tanker and an offshore vessel, the debate is shifting from whether nuclear shipping is possible to how it can be delivered.

Plus: Sam Altman claims Elon Musk tried to seize control of OpenAI. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

A retro-futuristic space truck and a nimble crustacean on wheels just won a competition to deploy on a future NASA Artemis ...

NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance ...