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

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

Shanghai is doubling down on its nuclear ambitions by forging a world-class hub for nuclear equipment manufacturing and ...

This photo taken on March 9, 2025 shows the one-eighth vacuum chamber and overall installation system, one of the key ...

Fusion power is the holy grail of energy technologies: it makes more energy than nuclear fission, produces less waste ... when China’s “artificial sun” reactor in Heifei managed a whole 17 minutes.

Armed with cutting-edge fusion energy technologies and bold venture backing, a generation of young Chinese innovators is ...

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 ...

British company Pulsar Fusion has revealed its plan for the Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-based rocket aiming to drastically cut ...

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

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

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

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...