For its proponents, the lesser-known nuclear process – fusion - could bring a new era of clean and secure energy to Europe.

Here nuclear reactions power the star by releasing energy. Helium is formed from hydrogen in nuclear fusion reactions. It is stable, with balanced forces keeping it the same size all the time.

Science For the first time, astronomers have obtained sufficiently detailed images of a star other than the Sun to track the ...

Fusion reactors work on the same principle as stars: they combine hydrogen atoms to produce helium and release enormous ...

Nuclear fusion occurs naturally in the core of stars, but reproducing the process in a research facility has its challenges. Nuclear fuel must be kept at elevated temperatures (at least 100 ...

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun and other stars, is painstakingly finicky to replicate on Earth. Many countries have achieved fusion reactions, but sustaining them for long enough ...

The term "red giant" refers to a star which has exhausted all of the hydrogen fuel in its core, which powers nuclear fusion in stars such as our Sun, and has instead moved on to burning helium.

US companies and industry experts are worried they’re losing their decades-long lead in the race to master this near-limitless form of clean energy, as new fusion companies sprout across China, and ...

SINGAPORE: With Singapore firms showing interest in contributing to the search for solutions to some of the key challenges in ...