The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

In space, however, where fusion reactors in the form of stars and our Sun, are abundant ... Pulsar Fusion's rocket would have a "nuclear exhaust," shooting out protons from an expensive type ...

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

ITER, as it’s called, is a mind-blowingly complex project, involving harnessing plasma that is even hotter than our sun. Because nothing ... makes building a fusion plant the challenge of a lifetime. ...

Replicating the nuclear fusion process requires a similar way to overcome the Coulomb barrier, but in lieu of even a small-sized star like our Sun, we need alternate means such as much higher ...