NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.

"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing ...

NASA-backed scientists have created a novel oxygen production system for space. This system uses magnets instead of heavy ...

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists with its spectacular water plumes, which NASA’s Cassini spacecraft once revealed to contain organic molecules. Many hoped these molecules ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

“There is no evidence of microbes on Mars today, but if any had been present on ancient Mars, they too might have reduced ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...