In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is still in the dark about NASA's participation in its Venus explorat Envision despite the ...

The Gateway, NASA’s upcoming lunar space station, is one step closer to reality as engineers have successfully powered on its ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Dubbed the 'city under the ice', this large structure turned out to be a long-abandoned military base that was purposely ...

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has announced that veteran NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® at the annual induction ceremony on May ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

NASA has selected two Colorado companies to help develop a future NASA space telescope that will look for signs of life on other planets. The flagship project, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...