NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have test-fired a gas generator built from parts originally manufactured for the F-1 first-stage engine that sent men to the Moon on the Saturn V. One ...

The reusability of different parts of a space rocket has opened the doors to a literal flood of launches to Earth orbit and beyond. Thanks to the fact that space companies now no longer have to make a ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...

A countdown is underway at NASA's Florida spaceport, ticking down the days until the public can experience a rocket engine test closer than ever before — by standing directly under the engine's nozzle ...