Deep-space exploration is trading chemical rockets for nuclear fission. To expand human presence beyond ...

The US space and energy agencies have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding establishing a framework for end-to-end ...

Nuclear sources provide heat and electricity independently of these conditions, giving mission planners a dependable option ...

Click here for the report explaining the September 16 YouTube video!While private spaceflight and lunar/Mars exploration have ...

Room-temperature liquid metals could benefit deep-space exploration, enabling advances in propulsion, thermal management, soft robotics, smart spacesuits, and life support systems. (Nanowerk News) A ...

Next-generation rockets are changing space exploration by making launch vehicles more reusable, powerful, and capable of supporting deep space missions. Modern rocket technology is no longer focused ...

The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

A model of Axiom Space’s lunar spacesuit on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex before the Artemis 2 launch. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust When the Artemis astronauts step onto the ...

This week, America launched the first crewed deep space mission in over fifty years, and we should all be proud of the role North Alabama played in making it happen. Since the first lunar mission, the ...

NASA's long-distance spacecraft-calling network just got a boost. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons, ...