The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

This isotope is found at a ratio of about one per 2,500 helium-4 ions, the latter being the common version of helium.

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

In space, however, where fusion reactors in the form of stars and our Sun, are abundant ... Pulsar Fusion's rocket would have a "nuclear exhaust," shooting out protons from an expensive type ...

ITER, as it’s called, is a mind-blowingly complex project, involving harnessing plasma that is even hotter than our sun. Because nothing ... makes building a fusion plant the challenge of a lifetime. ...

Fusion energy stands as a beacon of hope in a world beset by rising energy demands, extreme weather and energy security ...

This photo taken on March 9, 2025 shows the one-eighth vacuum chamber and overall installation system, one of the key ...

Shanghai is doubling down on its nuclear ambitions by forging a world-class hub for nuclear equipment manufacturing and ...