Fusion energy is having a moment. Last week, Commonwealth Fusion Energy Systems, which is backed by Google, announced it had raised nearly $3 billion in capital and would start developing a fusion ...

Fusion energy, the same process that powers our sun and stars, is rapidly moving from scientific theory to commercial reality. In a fusion reaction, two light atoms—typically deuterium and ...

The House Science Energy Subcommittee hearing on fusion that I chaired this week made it clear that the process that our sun and stars use to generate energy is finally within our grasp — progressing ...

For decades, renewables like solar and wind have been hailed as the answer to our looming climate and infrastructure challenges. However, persistent issues have surfaced—especially with surging demand ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Fusion power could revolutionize our energy system. But after decades of research, it’s still out of reach.

Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there? DIII-D National Fusion Facility, operated by General Atomics, and Lawrence Livermore ...

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it. This ...

Last December physicists working on fusion claimed a breakthrough. A team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California announced it had extracted more energy from a controlled nuclear fusion ...