The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

L3Harris Technologies is selling a 60% stake in its space propulsion business to AE Industrial Partners for $845 million, ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint measured in weeks. The most ambitious concepts on the table promise crewed trips ...

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

L3Harris Technologies said on Monday it will sell an about 60% stake in its space propulsion and power systems business to ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Godspeed, Artemis 2! As early as February, 4 astronauts will board NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket in Florida for 10 ...

The deal could provide AE Industrial with opportunities in space exploration and the Pentagon's emerging Golden Dome ...