Nuclear fusion usually brings to mind sprawling facilities, blistering temperatures, and machines built on a scale that can swallow budgets whole. This device does something stranger.

A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?

By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - Construction of what could be the world's first commercial plant to ...

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

Although still a far-future technology, nuclear fusion is really hot right now, both literally and figuratively. Squishing together two light nuclei requires immensely hot temperatures (like, 100 ...

Scientists have directly observed muonic molecules in resonance states for the first time, using a high-resolution X-ray ...

Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

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 ...