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

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

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

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

If you want to know where the next nuclear reactor is being built, you may have to look up at the stars. Transportation ...

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 ...

Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia NASA's Acting Administrator, Sean Duffy, has directed the ...

The acting administrator of NASA, Sean Duffy, wants a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. His directive says the first ...

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 ...

According to a recent directive from acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy, the space agency will launch a nuclear reactor to the moon by 2030.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the IM-2 moon mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The mission is to send the IM-2's lunar lander to the moon in ...