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NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means
The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent to NASA officials in July and obtained by NPR. It's an ambitious target that has some in the scientific community concerned about high costs and a potentially unrealistic schedule.
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why
In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned international lunar research station. The United States countered in August, when acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reportedly suggested a US reactor would be operational on the Moon by 2030.
Lunar Trailblazer was set to map the Moon’s water in unprecedented detail but was lost after a communications failure soon ...
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a mission designed to create high-resolution maps of water on the Moon, ended after losing contact with the spacecraft just one day after its February 26 launch. Despite ...
Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.
An ankle sprain on Mars? An earache on the Moon? NASA and Google are building a proof-of-concept AI medical assistant ...
As of Monday, Aug. 11, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 94% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.
Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.
The Perseids meteor shower is the most popular one of the year. The meteors during this time are characterized by bright fireballs and long "wakes," the streak of light and color that follow behind.
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