One of the next private companies to attempt a moon landing in the new year will be the Japanese iSpace, due for a launch no earlier than January 2025. Its first attempt met with failure in April 2023 ...

Seconds after the Big Bang, the newborn universe gave rise to the first elements—ionized forms of hydrogen and helium. These particles combined, forging helium hydride—the first ever molecule. It ...

The methods previously described have been applied to a study of the elastic scattering of 4· 2 MeV protons by deuterium, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, argon, chlorine and bromine. The results ...

The recent Lawrence Livermore breakthrough, in which scientists created more energy from a fusion reaction than it took to create it, has uses applicable to space exploration. Fusion, harnessing the ...

Measurements of the amount of lithium in the universe combined with precision data from the cosmic microwave background are challenging our understanding both of stellar astrophysics and possibly even ...

Over 43 startups companies are working on nuclear fusion and they have received over $6 billion in funding. This does not include the international and national Tokomak fusion programs. The IEEE ...

Recent TV programmes have claimed that the Earth could be destroyed by black holes created in particle accelerators and that helium-3 from the Moon could be used for fusion energy. Frank Close warns ...

With nuclear fusion in the news, we look to the sun. An old hand at the process, it squeezed its first hydrogen atoms together 4.6 billion years ago. On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar ...