Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, hosts a potentially habitable planet, Proxima B. Reaching it is a colossal ...

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel ...

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit ...

Cold-flow tests at NASA Marshall demonstrated the stability of a nuclear propulsion design aimed at reducing travel times to the moon and Mars.

NASA engineers have completed first cold-flow tests of a full-scale nuclear thermal propulsion reactor, validating designs ...

American space agency NASA announced it had completed a test campaign for the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s.

Nuclear-powered dynamic positioning vessels are technically feasible and achievable, according to results from the ...

Gold fell over 10% last Friday, and that was the good news from the metals. Silver swan-dived 28.5%, platinum 18.4%, palladium 15.7%, copper 6%.

WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, marking the first major restructuring of ...

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say neutrinos could be used as a diagnostic ...

Private equity firm AE Industrial Partners will buy a majority stake in the RL-10 upper-stage rocket and space nuclear propulsion businesses from L3Harris Technologies for $507 million, according to ...

The consensus I gleaned from this year’s crystal ball gazing efforts was that 2026 would be a year of “stability” and falling ...