Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a mission designed to create high-resolution maps of water on the Moon, ended after losing contact with the spacecraft just one day after its February 26 launch. Despite ...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Lunar Trailblazer was set to map the Moon’s water in unprecedented detail but was lost after a communications failure soon ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

Learn how to watch the 2025 Perseids meteor shower at its peak, with NASA’s tips for seeing more meteors even under a bright full moon ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...