The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

The Trump administration wants a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade in a bid to beat Russia and China to ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

A base on the moon would be more democratic than those that Musk and his acolytes have advocated building on Mars. Given ...

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

The US is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

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

Calif., discusses the redistricting battles across the U.S., Google’s investments in AI and potential nuclear reactors on the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author, was recently on a CBS morning show. Discussion centered around the Trump administration’s call for more space exploration and plans to build a nuclear ...

NASA has unveiled plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 as part of its Artemis program, which aims to return ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.