NASA and DARPA announced a collaboration to demonstrate a working nuclear thermal rocket by 2027 with the goal of sending humans to Mars as quickly as possible.

Earlier this month, NASA announced that defense contractor Lockheed Martin would be building the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), the rocket that will someday take off from the surface of Mars to start ...

The White House on Friday released a budget blueprint that signals major shake-ups at NASA, as part of an effort to axe $163 billion in federal spending. The proposed cuts include slashing roughly ...

The blueprints for a nuclear rocket engine were initially drawn up in the 1960s. But the program stalled after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 turned ...

NASA is targeting Aug. 29 for its Artemis I moon rocket launch day. Why it matters Artemis is NASA's ambitious space exploration endeavor to bring humans back to the moon, and eventually, to Mars.

This is the story of NASA's Ares-class super-heavy lift vehicle. Before SLS, this was the booster rocket slated to bring humanity back beyond low-Earth orbit.

“NASA wanted a big space telescope, but was limited by the size of the rocket shrouds, so we had to figure out how to fold these things up—and that means making them segmented,” said Erin ...

The blueprint also proposes phasing out the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that NASA was developing to return astronauts to the moon, ending the program after only two more flights.