Sixty-one years after the U.S. launched its first and only reactor into orbit, space nuclear power and propulsion now appear central to U.S. space superiority.
NASA has selected 41 proposals from 37 companies to advance tech to establish a sustainable human presence at the Moon to prepare for human expeditions to Mars.
NASA is soliciting proposals for an open-fan flight demonstrator as part of the agency’s technology development plan for next-generation aircraft and subsonic vehicle propulsion systems.
NASA and Boeing are continuing work toward another uncrewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner with a cargo run to the International Space Station within the next year.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s restructuring of the Artemis lunar program has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of the overall initiative, the agency's IG says.
A NASA safety panel praised the International Space Station (ISS) program on June 22 for the precautionary steps it recently took while Russian cosmonauts looked into the latest in a series of worrisome air leaks.
A flagship NASA observatory designed to answer questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets and other astrophysical phenomena arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on June 21.
NASA has picked a concept for further development of a twin-sat mission to research how space weather and the Earth’s atmosphere affect the space environment.
Veteran astronaut Bob Hines' selection as the crew backup could be an indication of just how committed the agency is to acknowledging and addressing Artemis III's challenges.
Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket carrying a spacecraft intended to boost NASA’s ailing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher orbit reached Mojave, California, on June 18, as it heads to the Pacific for launch that's targeted for later this month.
