The Moon could soon host a nuclear power source. NASA is considering installing a powerful reactor there by 2030. This ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. An expert explains why this is not as an arms race but a strategic ...

As able as he is, the situation cries out for a permanent NASA administrator, someone with the respect of both President Trump and the Congress.

A base on the moon would be more democratic than those that Musk and his acolytes have advocated building on Mars. Given ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

That surge has pushed power demand higher as new data centers come online. Goldman Sachs estimates electricity use from those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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