NASA plans to establish a continuous lunar presence by 2030 with a nuclear reactor, crucial for powering habitats and ...

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

As China and Russia race to stake their claim, America is bidding to get ahead through a fusion of federal funding and ...

The former Navy pilot, who was portrayed by actor Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” died in a Chicago suburb on ...

A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor for the moon has is aggressive but achievable, industry ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned international lunar research station. The United States ...

The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing ...

Nuclear reactors on the Moon and at Denver airport, Kentucky’s new uranium enrichment facility, and nuclear energy restarts are driving Trump’s goals.

NASA is accelerating its plans to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon by the end of the decade to power lunar bases and gain an advantage in the new space race against Russia and China.

Advocates say new nuclear generating capacity is necessary in large part to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence computing. Although nuclear power is a key provider of ...