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

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

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

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon. For several years now, the agency has been working to get a ...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Is NASA going to put a nuclear reactor on the moon? Here's what Sean Duffy said about U.S. race against China in space and ...

Duffy went further than simply saying he wants the United States to beat China to the moon, however. The acting NASA chief ...

Even with the Trump administration slashing NASA’s budget and workforce, the space agency is moving ahead with a bold plan to ...

While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...

Nuclear power on the moon is critical to the United States' space exploration and national security goals, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said.

NASA's interim leader Sean Duffy recently declared the U.S. space agency aims to place a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to provide energy for an eventual lunar outpost. Duffy ...

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators ...