The United States is accelerating plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030. Under a new NASA directive, the agency aims to install a 100-kilowatt reactor to support long-term lunar ...

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 ...

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

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing ’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted ...

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

A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor for the moon has is aggressive but achievable, industry ...

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

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space ...