NASA and the Department of Energy have just tested a small fission nuclear reactor named KRUSTY (Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling Technology) in the Nevada desert, in what could be a way to provide ...

Long before SpaceX, long before Apollo, NASA had already imagined something far more permanent — a fully self sustaining colony on Mars. The plan called for a fleet of massive spacecraft and a ...

NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...