A spacecraft can cross millions of miles, survive radiation, and land on another world. Yet its onboard computer often lags ...

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 ...

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

The LECP has been operating almost without interruption since the Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched in 1977. Meanwhile, the ...

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.

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

According to a recent directive from acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy, the space agency will launch a nuclear reactor to the moon by 2030. NASA is developing nuclear power on the moon. According ...

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 ...

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 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 ...