Lab experiments suggest that future fusion reactors could use helium-3 gathered from the moon.

France won an international competition today to be the site of the world's first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world's future energy needs.

Scientists have built a device that mimics the magnetic fields surrounding the Earth and other planets. They hope to use the device to understand how the Earth's protective magnetosphere works -- and possibly gain insights into how to make fusion a feasible energy source.

Scientists say they are more confident than ever that they can successfully build and operate a planned experimental fusion reactor, a necessary step for fusion energy to prove the technology's commercial potential.

A review of the political and technical challenges faced by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) as it faces a decisive stage in its future.

Short update on the prospects for a commerically viable fusion reactor and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.

Officials are currently deciding where to site the world's first big nuclear fusion reactor as part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) project.

With a blast of X-rays compressing a capsule of hydrogen to conditions approaching those at the center of the Sun, scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced that they have achieved thermonuclear fusion, in essence detonating a tiny hydrogen bomb. Such controlled explosions would not be large enough to be dangerous and might offer an alternative way of generating electricity by harnessing fusion, the process that powers the Sun. Fusion combines hydrogen atoms into helium, producing bountiful energy as a byproduct.

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories say they have made a discovery that might bring the world one step closer to fusion-generated electrical power.

China and the US are officially joining the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor project, the largest international science project of the next decade - excepting the International Space Station.