Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

NASA released a much-anticipated contract solicitation for a Mars-orbiting spacecraft late last week, kicking off what is sure to be a hotly contested and potentially controversial procurement. At ...

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined a major overhaul of the agency’s structure that included a new director for Kennedy Space Center. Following the retirement of Janet Petro earlier this month, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has confirmed that a next-generation radiation-hardened processor developed under its High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) project is now benchmarking at 500 ...

On Episode 212 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Space.com's Mike Wall to discuss the loss of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket.

The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s gargantuan rocket launched on Friday evening and ended its journey in the Indian Ocean just over an hour later. By Kenneth Chang Despite some engine failures along the ...

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With a slight delay from the original launch date, Elon Musk’s space company finally launched Starship V3 from Starbase, Texas. The brand-new rocket, packed with 33 new Raptor engines, lifted off from ...

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...