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 ...

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

This isotope is found at a ratio of about one per 2,500 helium-4 ions, the latter being the common version of helium.

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

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to achieving that dream.

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

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

Fusion energy stands as a beacon of hope in a world beset by rising energy demands, extreme weather and energy security ...

Replicating the nuclear fusion process requires a similar way to overcome the Coulomb barrier, but in lieu of even a small-sized star like our Sun, we need alternate means such as much higher ...

A Knoxville-based fusion powerhouse says it's solved the fundamental science of harnessing the sun's power to produce electricity.