There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...

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 ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure ...

NASA engineers explain how Artemis II life support systems differ from the ISS, focusing on regenerative systems, deep space requirements and crew survival technologies.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Monarch Quantum, Inc., a U.S.-based quantum photonics company specializing in integrated photonics systems for quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum ...

NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed journey around the Moon in over fifty years, has been delayed due to a helium flow anomaly in the Space Launch System rocket's Interim Cryogenic Propulsion ...