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The two California-based companies have formed a strategic partnership to develop the first commercial nuclear-powered ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

Engineers are exploring propulsion methods that could enable longer-distance travel ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS Mornings." Based in Chicago, she specializes in covering live events and exclusive interviews for the show.

Credit: Isar Aerospace The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally kicked off the European Launcher Challenge, a keystone effort to diversify homegrown rocket options. The so-called invitation to ...

This leads to direct and indirect space savings.Today the big challenge is the podpropulsion. Pod-propulsion is an industry standard today in passenger cruise ships and has been applied also for ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and ... Nanomaterials Used to ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. By Katrina Miller The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights ...