Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed across nearly every arena, including space. The rivalry shifted dramatically on Oct. 4, 1957, when the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The year's best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger and Paul Gigot. Photo: VATICAN MEDIA/Zuma Press Will fusion reactors soon deliver emissions-free ...

The merger announced Thursday between President Donald Trump’s social media company and the fusion energy giant TAE Technologies represents a massive cash bet on a technology that hasn’t yet been ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

The fusion energy landscape is evolving rapidly. Once confined to experimental research, fusion is now emerging as a strategic national priority for research and development. The IAEA World Fusion ...

The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand. This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside the sun. But to recreate the process on Earth, we must control ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...

In another sign of fusion energy development’s quickening pace, Helion Energy, a startup with $1 billion in private funding, announced Wednesday it has commenced construction of its first planned ...

Google announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The tech giant will buy 200 megawatts of clean ...