Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have spent two decades and large portions of their exorbitant wealth creating new space technologies. Their plan is to reshape how humans live.

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain ...

NASA scientists discover strong new evidence that Mars may have once supported life, much as Earth does today.

NASA is increasingly sure its Mars rover Perseverance found a rock with biosignatures of ancient microbial life. However, the sample would need to be tested in labs on Earth to confirm the findings ...

Dozens of Pittsburgh firefighters spent more than four hours this week battling a blaze in a 30-unit apartment building that ...

Instead of using solid fuel elements, this innovative design uses liquid uranium fuel to heat the rocket propellant directly.

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for ...

After four years of discoveries and explorations on Mars, Nasa ’s Perseverance Rover has found some unusual rocks on the ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

Scientists stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the sample gathered by the Perseverance rover before reaching any ...