Clean Energy

NASA and the Department of Energy are asking U.S. companies for help putting a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2031.

California startup Monarch Tractor has raised $61 million to increase production of its self-driving electric tractor.

Here's what the science says about climate change — and a few reasons to be optimistic.

The growing usage of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in vehicles, is outpacing the technology to recycle them. But researchers and innovators are scrambling to find an effective and eco-friendly battery recycling technique.

A unique metal-chomping microorganism ate through a nail in just three days. Now they might be tasked with an enormous mission: cleaning up mining waste.

Agrivoltaics combines farming with renewable energy, using the shade of solar panels to help plants thrive in a changing climate.

Electric cars could power millions of households by plugging their battery power back into the grid instead of being stored.

The U.K is giving Rolls-Royce nearly $300 million to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) to increase its supply of clean energy.

Energy startup Helion claims it will generate electricity from a nuclear fusion device by 2024 — a milestone that could transform the world.

Net Power has designed a new kind of natural gas power plant that can efficiently capture almost all of the carbon dioxide it generates.