NASA's Artemis II rocket is nearly ready to fly to the dark side of the moon and back. Let's take a look at how this massive ...

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Nuclear rockets are moving from Cold War concept to near-term hardware, and the shift could reshape how quickly and safely humans cross the solar system. By pairing compact reactors with efficient ...

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

When you think of a rocket launch, you likely imagine a massive explosion of flames and smoke expanding across the launch site as the propulsion systems hurl thousands of tons of metal into space.