The NASA Glenn Research Center in Northeast Ohio has been selected to oversee a major space project that could bring nuclear energy to the moon, potentially involving billions of dollars in funding.

NASA plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by the 2030s to support long-term human exploration. The project aims to address power needs during lunar nights and provide high-power energy for ...

Shares of BWX Technologies hit a record high, as investors believe the nuclear-power company could be involved in NASA's lunar plans Shares of BWX Technologies Inc., which manufactures nuclear ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

American pursuit of long-term human missions to the moon hampered by budget cuts to bioregenerative technologies, paper says.

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly detected the auroras of Jupiter's moon Callisto. This discovery completes the ...

Trump's fiscal year 2026 (FY 26) budget request cut NASA's budget by a historic 24%, with 47% of funding to agency science ...

Juno was originally programmed to study Jupiter between 2016 and 2017, NASA said. But after 37 orbits around the Jovian system, astronomers chose to keep it running until September 2025, plunging it ...

NASA’s Artemis program, the linchpin of America’s efforts to return astronauts to the moon, aims to conduct regular missions ...