A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

World’s First Nuclear Blast Left Behind a Mysterious Form of Matter — And Scientists Still Can’t Explain What It Is Sometimes, the most remarkable discoveries come from unexpected places. In one such ...

Russia, creator of the world's most powerful nuclear weapon, the Tsar Bomb, is likely set to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft aimed at sabotaging Western satellites across low Earth orbit. (Photo ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

Soviet success with Sputnik initially prompted the US military to consider the detonation of a nuclear weapon on the moon’s surface. One of the more memorable scenes from the Austin Powers film series ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Roughly 12,550 miles above Earth, a constellation of U.S. global positioning satellites orbits the planet. GPS satellites also carry a sophisticated system designed to detect above ...

The LOI primarily outlines a plan to explore integrating Space Nukes’ 10-kilowatt nuclear reactor aboard its ALV-N satellite. Further, if the microreactor meets the performance criteria and ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built a simulated nuclear reactor test bed to develop the engines ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it might feel like a ...