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

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

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

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers stars like our Sun, and though humans can catalyze nuclear fusion in Earth-based reactors, scientists have not yet made the process efficient enough to ...

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. ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket that, it claims, could significantly cut down the time it takes to travel to Mars in half.

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...

a Madison-based nuclear startup, have developed a fusion device in Stoughton that creates the same kind of reaction that fuels the sun and stars. The process is much different than fission ...