IN a brief but interesting piece of news this past week, it was announced that a solicited proposal for the construction of a ...

It took the capsule 17 hours to make the trip home, experiencing re-entry temperatures of around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it punched through the atmosphere following Friday's ISS undocking.

That surge has pushed power demand higher as new data centers come online. Goldman Sachs estimates electricity use from those ...

NASA plans to establish a continuous lunar presence by 2030 with a nuclear reactor, crucial for powering habitats and ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

The Perseids meteor shower is the most popular one of the year. The meteors during this time are characterized by bright ...

As China and Russia race to stake their claim, America is bidding to get ahead through a fusion of federal funding and ...

NASA is developing a 40-kilowatt lunar nuclear reactor under its Fission Surface Power program, aiming for deployment by decade’s end to provide reliable energy during the Moon’s two-week nights.

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

When liquid water still existed on Mars, it carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks, NASA said. Once the liquid dried, it ...

A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor for the moon has is aggressive but achievable, industry ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.