Starliner returned autonomously in early September. Since then, NASA and Boeing have been reviewing data from the test flight ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

"It is likely to be in the timeframe of late this calendar year or early next year for the next Starliner flight." ...

To make these plans a reality, NASA is working on a project that could facilitate our journey to Mars, thanks to modern technology powered by a nuclear propulsion system. The nuclear propulsion ...

The agency is working with Boeing to resolve the Starliner's faulty propulsion system, which caused its debut eight-day crewed mission to stretch into a nine-month stay in space for NASA ...

As humanity’s ambitions to send humans to Mars grow, the challenge of getting there in a timely and safe manner becomes more ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...

NASA announced that engineers at the Jet Propulsion ... Both Voyager probes are equipped with a radioisotope power system, a nuclear battery that uses the heat of decaying plutonium to generate ...