Their 8-meter fusion chamber, set to ignite in 2027, aims to generate temperatures hotter than the sun's core, propelling the rocket's exhaust at speeds exceeding 500,000 miles per hour.

The premise is to look for signs of nuclear fusion on distant planets ... The researchers propose this could catalyze the astronomy community to develop new spectrometers to analyze the ...

Robert Rosner, a professor of astrophysics and astronomy at the University of Chicago, estimated the soonest a fusion power plant could be built is the last 2030s. He said scientists have been ...