The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

A British start-up has unveiled an ambitious project that could transform space exploration. Their idea? Using nuclear fusion ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the ...

Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

If Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore depart on schedule, they will have have spent more nearly 10 months in space, but it's not ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

None of those designs have flown in space, though. Pangea sys it remains focused on developing propulsion systems and has no plans to move towards full launch systems or other spacecraft.

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...