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In this week's Current Climate newsletter, correcting presidential misinformation on water; the Moon is going nuclear; Ford ...

Currently, there are no SMRs in operation; however, NuScale Power and Oklo are two companies at the forefront of developing ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

Currently, NASA is being led by Interim Administrator Janet Petro, who has been in the role since her appointment by Trump in January 2025.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday. The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA’s ...

About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, the agency disclosed.

NASA will lose roughly 3,870 employees through a voluntary resignation program, part of a broad push from President Donald Trump’s administration to reduce the federal workforce.

A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking “rapid and wasteful changes” across staffing, mission and budgetary cuts at NASA.