British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

A nuclear fusion rocket could be the key to unlocking speedy flights in space exploration, and one company hopes to test it ...

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

A British start-up has unveiled an ambitious project that could transform space exploration. Their idea? Using nuclear fusion to power a fleet of reusable rockets, nicknamed Sunbirds, capable ...

When ready, it attaches to other spacecraft and propels them toward their destinations using a nuclear fusion engine. That ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement ...

SAINT-PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France – Set in a scrubby forest of pine, oak and aromatic brush in Provence, the world’s largest nuclear fusion plant is under construction. Here, 2,000 scientists, physicists ...