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

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument.

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

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...

It has long become obvious that if we are to expand our reach into the solar system, the current means of propulsion for spaceships would simply not do. With such goals set for the near future, the ...

The U.S. has not flown a nuclear reactor in space since 1965, but that could change with the SR-1 Freedom mission. Credit: NASA Concept As part of its reboot of the Artemis exploration campaign, NASA ...

Annie Easley began as a ‘human computer’, performing complex calculations by hand before electronic systems took over. She later became a programmer at NASA, contributing to propulsion and energy ...

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An independent review of the first — and so far, only — piloted flight of Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft concluded that the test represented a potentially life-threatening "Type A" mishap ...