A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics ...

With no consensus on the safety of the Starliner crew capsule, NASA officials said Wednesday they need another week or two before deciding whether to bring two astronauts back to Earth on Boeing’s ...

Space agency provides updates on lunar lander missions — and teases a World Cup soccer-ball moonshot.

NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Abe Silverstein was a pioneering NACA and NASA engineer who advanced jet propulsion, supersonic research, liquid hydrogen ...

NASA is leading an effort, working with the Department of Energy (DOE), to advance space nuclear technologies. The government team has selected three reactor design concept proposals for a nuclear ...

The U.S. has not flown a nuclear reactor in space since 1965, but that could change with the SR-1 Freedom mission. Credit: NASA Concept As part of its reboot of the Artemis exploration campaign, NASA ...

Matter-antimatter annihilations produce about 10 billion times more energy per unit mass than chemical combustion (which powers most operational spacecraft propulsion systems) and about 300 times more ...