In their report, Lal and Myers estimate it would cost about $800 million annually for five years to build and deploy a ...

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

The high ground has always held strategic and tactical importance—from mountaintops in ancient battles to the orbital vantage ...

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

This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, ...

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

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space ...

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

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

Signed by the current Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, NASA Headquarters released a plan that calls for creating a new position, the Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who would oversee this ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

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