In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

The shipbuilding subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai has been selected as preferred manufacturer for TerraPower's Natrium Reactor Enclosure System components, one of a series of agreements aimed at ...

NASA launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space ...

Engineers are preparing for the next generation of nuclear power reactors, aimed at improving energy security and mitigating climate change. Many advanced reactor designs, including small modular ...

With the Iran war once again drawing attention to the world's oil and natural gas trade, energy as a national security priority is at the fore. It doubles down on the theme that flared after major ...