The White House wants a nuclear reactor ready for launch to the moon by 2030. Reliable lunar power is the linchpin in NASA’s plans for a “golden age” of space discovery — fueling a habitable moon base ...

When Artemis II blasts off for its lunar flyby, its powerful SLS rocket will include some "heritage hardware." The core engines are mostly recycled space shuttle engines, along with some reused ...

In the 1970s, NASA studied a passenger version of the Space Shuttle designed to move huge numbers of workers into orbit for ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

T minus 10 - the acoustic shock absorption system starts - a huge fountain of water cascades from underneath the launch pad. Its role is to absorb the sound waves that come from the exhaust of the ...

Jared Isaacman, Administrator of NASA, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Space Foundation Symposium with a photo as background that was taken from NASA’s recent very successful mission in which ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. And it is just the beginning. In a speech at a space policy event on Tuesday, NASA chief Jared ...