The White House released a policy April 14 directing NASA, the Pentagon and DOE to develop space nuclear power systems that ...

China’s ambitious plans to build a space-based solar power station are drawing renewed attention ...

A King’s College London study found that space-based solar power could cut Europe’s land-based renewable needs by 80% by 2050. Japan and the U.S. are testing early prototypes that beam solar energy ...

Orbital is planning to launch AI data centers into space to solve power and cooling issues ...

The administration wants to launch the reactors to the moon within the next four years – a timeline that critics say could be ...

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Access to space, particularly for crewed missions, remains heavily concentrated in one company, SpaceX. While the United States has begun developing alternatives, in operational reality that ...

Aetherflux Inc. wants to put AI servers in orbit, and it is giving itself less than two years to do it. The California-based ...

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study will raise from a valid concept to a proof of concept experiment.

When a reactor’s radioactive core undergoes nuclear fission, its atoms split and release heat, which then turns the water to ...

Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) addresses the land use and intermittency challenges of terrestrial solar and wind by providing 24/7, baseload, and dispatchable carbon-free electricity from orbit.

The Space Force Association recently announced the establishment of the National Spacepower Center in December 2025, with the mission to better translate the space domain to government, academia, and ...