The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

Duffy went further than simply saying he wants the United States to beat China to the moon, however. The acting NASA chief ...

While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...

The acting administrator of NASA, Sean Duffy, wants a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. His directive says the first ...

NASA's interim leader Sean Duffy recently declared the U.S. space agency aims to place a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to provide energy for an eventual lunar outpost. Duffy ...

Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia NASA's Acting Administrator, Sean Duffy, has directed the ...

NASA is accelerating its plans to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon by the end of the decade to power lunar bases and gain an advantage in the new space race against Russia and China.

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space station contracts despite a 25% budget reduction.

A natural nuclear reactor Questions raised by a fission chain reaction that occurred billions of years ago, and making silver compounds lighter with light, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.

A water supply that could help NASA set up a permanent lunar base is preserved—or trapped—within craters so deep, the bottoms haven’t seen the sun for up to two billion years. As most of the vehicles ...