Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly ...

NASA’s Mars planning documents contain a quiet warning: a 375-day round trip may push astronauts past the allowable lifetime ...

Space rockets may soon use nuclear-powered engines based on nuclear thermal propulsion, or NTP technology. While no nuclear engine will fly this year, the field is approaching a major milestone, with ...

With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s next: establishing an enduring presence on the moon. Through a ...

NASA's next mission sounds more like an Andy Weir space drama than a government project. Debuted at NASA's March 2026 'Ignition' event, the agency's first nuclear-powered mission to Mars now has a ...

NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars.

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy still holds for spaceflight’s future Before that moment among the cabbages, ...

The agency wants to fly it to Mars by the end of 2028. Experts say that’s … ambitious. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you ...

A NASA nuclear scientist died after a fiery crash in a rural Alabama town last year, which at the time caused suspicion among family members. Joshua LeBlanc, 29, died in a fiery crash in his Tesla on ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system.

The first human Mars explorers won’t have it easy. Every additional day in deep space will increase their exposure to deadly ...