Somewhere inside NASA’s sprawling nuclear propulsion pipeline, a spacecraft called SR-1 Freedom is being designed to do ...

Following a December 2025 executive order prioritizing “American space superiority,” NASA is advancing nuclear ...

NASA plans to launch SR-1 Freedom, the first interplanetary spacecraft powered by a nuclear fission reactor, to Mars in December 2028. The mission will test nuclear electric propulsion and deploy a ...

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned moon base.

The largest section of the space rocket that will launch the next moon mission has been shipped to the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as ...

Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites — ...