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

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.

In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...

The rise of the commercial space industry precipitated a steeper decline at Rocketdyne. Boeing sold the Rocketdyne division ...

"This agreement enables closer collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy to deliver the capabilities necessary ...

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

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

Executives from nuclear energy provider Zeno Power share their predictions for their industry in the coming year.

The only people who value ease of maintenance at a cheap cost to manufacture, more than NASA, are people cruising Craigslist and eBay for a low-mileage 350 small-block Chevy motor at three in the ...

Pittsburgh aerospace startup Astrobotic just landed $17.5 million in government contracts to advance reusable rockets. Using Small Business Innovation Research grants — two from NASA and one from the ...

Japan’s H3 rocket lifted off for its seventh mission on Sunday, but an engine failure foiled its attempt to insert a navigation satellite in geostationary orbit. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...