The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

NASA plans to launch the mission in 2028.

The Artemis II mission is America’s opening bid for deep space exploration — an ambition that is well worth its hefty price tag. Some taxpayers watching Artemis II might think, “Been there, done that.

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s latest mission aims to catch the planet in the act of ...

Former 12th NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. joins FOX Weather following the successful and historic launch of Artemis II. And the mission is much more than a trip to the Moon, as Bolden

HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines (IM) is working to repurpose the solar electric power and propulsion element (PPE) spacecraft bus of NASA’s paused lunar-orbiting Gateway space station for the agency’s Mars mission.