NASA's planned fuel cell may be large, but it should still be cheaper to launch than a traditional battery.

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 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing a new generation of modular nuclear reactors that will power manned outposts on the moon and Mars, providing a simple, yet ...

This reactor effort is known as “Fission Surface Power” (FSP). It is meant to deliver continuous, reliable electricity for long-duration lunar operations—something that solar power alone cannot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of Nasa’s Voyager 1 satellite (Nasa) Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar ...

As preparations continue in Florida for the launch of the Artemis II mission as soon as next week, NASA announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new power source for ...

The largest and heaviest self-propelled ground vehicle on the planet, per Guinness, sits at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Creatively dubbed Crawler-Transporter 2, this monstrosity is the ...

The US space agency NASA has set out a series of ambitious goals for missions, which include a return to the Moon by early 2028 as well as a Mars mission the same year utilising nuclear propulsion ...

Credit: NASA HOUSTON—Two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk March 18 to resume efforts to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for the installation of a final pair of ...

Nasa shut down one of Voyager 1's science instruments to conserve dwindling power and keep the nearly 49-year-old spacecraft operating as it continues its journey through interstellar space more than ...