U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...
Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...
Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, ...
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
Representatives from politics, business and science have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a ...
Jackson Oswalt, at the age of 12, achieved nuclear fusion in his home lab in Memphis, supported by his parents who valued his passion for science. His accomplishment earned him the Guinness World ...
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...
Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...
There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... Alternatively, inject a small flux of high-energy neutrons (e.g., via a fusion source or accelerator) to “seed” ...