For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028.

The Pasadena lab plays a key role in data exchange and communications between four Artemis II astronauts and mission control.

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned ...

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 plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that ...

NASA announced a mission to Mars using nuclear electric propulsion. How does it differ from earlier missions that utilized ...

Live coverage of NASA’s Artemis II launch with liftoff targeting 6:24 p.m. The mission will send four astronauts on a 10-day, ...

Artemis II follows the uncrewed Artemis I mission launched in 2022, which tested the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and ...

The United States plans to launch the first ever nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft Space Reactor-1 Freedom to Mars by ...

Rohan Ganapathy, co-founder and CEO of Bellatrix Aerospace, talks about the long road to scaling satellite propulsion ...

Mobility in space continually cements itself as important in this modern era of space exploration, with satellites like Starlink, Amazon's upcoming Project Kuiper, the International Space Station, and ...