The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

NASA and the DOE partner to build a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030, providing the power needed for sustained space missions.

"This agreement enables closer collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy to deliver the capabilities necessary ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

The towering rocket that will help propel a group of astronauts on NASA's first human moon mission in half-a-century may soon ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

The Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame ...