NASA has powered down Voyager 1’s Low-Energy Charged Particles experiment to conserve dwindling nuclear power and extend the nearly 49-year-old spacecraft’s life in interstellar space. The move ...

Nuclear power on the Moon has moved from science fiction to a concrete target on the United States space agenda. NASA and the Department of Energy now have a shared goal of operating a fission reactor ...

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system.

After Artemis II took astronauts to lunar orbit for the first time since 1972, Nasa has released detailed plans for how it intends to establish a Moon base within the next decade. It is ambitious, to ...

NASA’s aging interstellar probe is gradually losing power, forcing the space agency to shut down one of its science instruments to conserve its energy. Launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission has ...

LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...

NASA selected three winners out of nine finalists in the second annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for elementary through high school students featuring the power of ...

NASA strives to understand the universe, whether that be the stars above us or Earth around us. One way NASA focuses on the Earth is through satellite, ground, and airborne Earth observations and ...