Currently, only robotic landers, rovers and a helicopter have visited the red planet, but the images regularly beamed back to ...

NASA scientists say the new planet orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star in the Alpha Centauri stellar system - and ...

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space ...

One of NASA’s two previously stuck astronauts has retired from the space agency, less than five months after his unexpectedly ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

The recent joint effort between NASA and the French space agency CNES has yielded groundbreaking data with the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite. A critical tool in ...

New evidence of giant gas planet around ‘Earth’s closest solar twin’ - The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable zone of ...

The latest observations suggest the comet could be as wide as 5.6 kilometres, and at least 320 metres. Further observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will help researchers work out the size ...

Sean Duffy wants a leader appointed in 60 days and urged courting firms to launch the moon nuke mission before Beijing and ...

WASHINGTON — The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first ...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators ...