Somewhere inside NASA’s sprawling nuclear propulsion pipeline, a spacecraft called SR-1 Freedom is being designed to do ...

The largest section of the space rocket that will launch the next moon mission has been shipped to the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned moon base.

The lunar flyby of Artemis II had all eyes on the moon. But what lies ahead is even wilder: establishing a moon base for life ...

If all goes according to plan, MMX will arrive in orbit around Mars in 2027 to begin mapping and analyzing Phobos and Deimos ...

Following a December 2025 executive order prioritizing “American space superiority,” NASA is advancing nuclear ...

China's Tianwen 3 unmanned mission to Mars is set to carry an array of science payloads, including five built by scientists from Hong Kong, Macao and foreign institutes, according to the China ...

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

Some Earth-based microbes may be tougher than expected, raising new questions about survival beyond our planet.