Nuclear rockets are moving from Cold War concept to near-term hardware, and the shift could reshape how quickly and safely ...

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

York Space Systems (York), a modern defense prime built for speed and scale, today announced the successful initial commissioning of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) payload aboard the ...

Five companies have won spots on NASA™s potential $2.6B Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, bringing the total number of awardees to 14. As part of the CLPS effort, contractors may be tasked ...

The IM-2 lunar lander and its secondary payloads integrated for launch. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is set to launch, taking to the moon NASA and ...

Technicians and engineers encapsulate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the ...

Credit: NASA NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return ...

SpaceX boosted its carrying capacity of Starlink internet-beaming satellites to 29 during a predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch Sunday, May 4, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX did not publicly ...

SwRI developed the CoDICE instrument for IMAP with a unique thermal management design to address extreme temperature variations ranging from the intense heat of direct sunlight to the frigid cold of ...