There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft. It is an attempt to rewrite the basic rules of how far, how fast, and how ...