A California nuclear startup with roots in space exploration is coming to East TN. Meet Radiant Industries, which announced Oak Ridge plans Oct. 13.

"If you are interested in long-term space colonization or lunar bases or Mars bases, nuclear becomes quite quickly your only option," said James Walker.

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable speed. Some say it reached space, beating Sputnik by months. This video ...

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico says his government has approved an agreement with the United States to build a new ...

Washington is focused on expanding its launch capabilities for a potential deployment of offensive weapons to orbit, said Stepanov ...

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

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

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been disconnected from the Ukrainian electricity grid for a record 120 hours, while Russia attempts to restart the nuclear reactors, ...

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes ...

NASA is seriously considering using a nuclear explosion in space to prevent a potential asteroid collision with the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once thought to pose a risk to Earth, now has a ...