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 ...

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

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’ ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

Duffy went further than simply saying he wants the United States to beat China to the moon, however. The acting NASA chief ...

If Duffy is serious about his stated objective, then he and the president must work more effectively to integrate SpaceX and other private space startups more fully into NASA.

Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy's plan to fast-track nuclear reactors on the moon is a ...

As China and Russia have announced joint efforts to develop their own nuclear reactor on the moon, acting NASA Administrator ...