NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Given the track record of fusion over the past 75 years, that must be taken with a grain of salt. Even the international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject ITER recently suffered a ...

Nuclear fusion, the process whereby atomic nuclei coalesce to form a heavier nucleus, lies at the heart of both energy generation and the synthesis of elements in the cosmos. In recent decades, ...

Harnessing energy from nuclear fusion – the combining of nuclei, which lie within atoms – could be instrumental in the shift towards a decarbonised global energy system. As issues of climate change ...

Researchers have taken a crucial step forward in the quest for clean, limitless energy. A team at General Atomics, a research facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy, has reported a ...

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...

Germany has announced a €1.7 billion investment in nuclear fusion, aiming to develop the world's first commercial fusion reactor, a significant reversal of its long-standing anti-nuclear energy stance ...

Tapping into discarded nuclear waste could help generate a self-sufficient source of a key ingredient for nuclear fusion, a new plan proposes. Reading time 3 minutes Nuclear fusion has seen some ...