With nuclear fusion in the news, we look to the sun. An old hand at the process, it squeezed its first hydrogen atoms together 4.6 billion years ago. On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar ...

Fusion is the process of building up simple atoms into larger more complex ones. It releases a lot of energy, and occurs every day in the sun as well as every other star in the Universe. The trick for ...

TORONTO (CTV Network) — Astronomers studying stellar evolution have stumbled on an unexpected discovery: a new type of star that seems to break the mold of star formation. Most stars have surfaces ...

A new class of advanced steels needs more fine-tuning before use in system components for fusion energy—a more sustainable alternative to fission that combines two light atoms rather than splitting ...

Last week, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made nuclear fusion history. At 1 a.m. Pacific on December 5, scientists fired the world’s most energetic lasers to ...

Researchers bringing the nuclear process that powers the stars down to Earth to supply humanity's growing power needs have broken an important record in the generation of superheated plasma. The team ...