Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

NASA’s Fission Surface Power project provides a solution to power generation needs. NASA uses nuclear fission as a power generation method to produce continuous, reliable power that operates without ...

“Destroying it would be easy,” says the NASA project manager ... NASA has not commented on whether it would send a nuclear warhead or some other explosive counteract the asteroid ...

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

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

The YR4 asteroid is currently the most dangerous space object near Earth, according to NASA, and its impact on the planet would have the same power as a nuclear bomb. In the latest impact risk ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible," Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a ...

WASHINGTON — A massive solar energy project is moving forward at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, a site historically known for its role in nuclear weapons production ...

Read more about Bechtel's appointment of company veteran Dena Volovar as head of its nuclear, security and environmental ...