The aerospace industry is high-stakes. To help chart a course for Perseverance, NASA has enlisted AI and a digital twin.

NASA may not be able to move forward three planned Venus missions as budget pressures force difficult trade-offs across its planetary science portfolio.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket developed for the agency's Artemis lunar program is among the tallest in the world. Here's how it stack up.

New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light

Why nuclear makes sense for the Red Planet. Google’s new memory math for AI. Why video games help you sleep. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by the end of 2028. If successful, it would be the first probe to use nuclear propulsion to travel beyond Earth’s orbit.

The crew of the Artemis II mission will include the first woman and person of color to travel to deep space, ushering in a new era of representation in exploration beyond Earth.

NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its craters could reveal its true origin.