The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

As able as he is, the situation cries out for a permanent NASA administrator, someone with the respect of both President ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

As NASA eyes a return to the moon, the agency has set an ambitious goal: deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by ...

A base on the moon would be more democratic than those that Musk and his acolytes have advocated building on Mars. Given ...

An international crew of four astronauts is back home on Earth Saturday after nearly five months aboard the International ...

NASA is fast-tracking a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2029, while China and Russia plan their own lunar ...

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...