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

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

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

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

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 Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

NASA is expediting plans to deploy a 100kW nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, aiming to power future lunar bases and ...

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 ...

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

Duffy went further than simply saying he wants the United States to beat China to the moon, however. The acting NASA chief said that he wants the U.S. to claim the "best" part of the moon for itself.

Analysis - It comes just three months after China and Russia announced they were considering a joint effort to also put a ...

In his first bold policy stroke as NASA’s interim head, Sean Duffy has directed the agency to put a 100-kilowatt nuclear ...