Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, ...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical challenges.

While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...

Signed by the current Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, NASA Headquarters released a plan that calls for creating a new position, the Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who would oversee this ...