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

For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most approaches to fusion involve enormous machines designed to squeeze plasma ...

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

The world’s newest flagship fusion machine has barely finished proving it can work, and already it is heading into a long pause. After a high profile debut campaign that cost hundreds of millions of ...

DEVENS — If harnessed properly, experts in the field say fusion could be the key to an unlimited, environmentally-friendly energy source for the world. And one of the companies working to harness this ...

Nuclear fusion originates in our sun and other stars. Immense pressure and high temperatures in the core create a reaction, ultimately preventing it from collapsing under the force of gravity. "The ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Scientists checking a large pulsed power machine that creates nuclear fusion in a nuclear ...