A team of scientists has just landed a massive grant to build materials strong enough to withstand the blistering heat and ...

The line became known as the main sequence. Competing groups of astronomers came up with different ways to categorize main ...

Imagine if we could replace fossil fuels with our very own stars. And no, we're not talking about solar power: We're talking nuclear fusion. And recent research is helping us get there.

Oxfordshire-based startup First Light Fusion has announced a big shift in its nuclear gun strategy. The company will no ...

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard, Ph.D., a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma ...

Jon Chase explains the nuclear fusion that causes stars like our sun to give out enormous heat. Film footage of a nuclear explosion in a hydrogen bomb is used to draw an analogy with the sun’s ...