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

Fusion energy could reduce Europe's dependence on foreign powers such as the US, China, and Russia, according to the CEO of ...

The sun just released a burst of a rare form of helium known ... On Earth, 3 He is highly prized for its potential uses in ...

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 ...

He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

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

the world’s largest nuclear fusion plant is under construction. Here, 2,000 scientists, physicists and workers from more than 30 countries are building a power plant fueled by the same energy that ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

In this donut-shaped vessel, fusion fuel is heated to a hot plasma state where temperatures cross ten times that on the core of the Sun and make nuclear fusion possible. At ITER, researchers are ...

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.

China delivers magnetic feeder system for ITER. The ITER, also named as the ‘artificial sun’ is one of the most important ...