EuNPC2015

It is in the nature of astrophysics that many of the processes and objects one tries to understand are physically inaccessible. Thus, it is important that those aspects that can be studied in the laboratory be rather well understood. One such aspect are the nuclear fusion reactions, which are at the heart of nuclear astrophysics: they influence sensitively the nucleosynthesis of the elements in the earliest stages of the universe and in all the objects formed thereafter, and control the associated energy generation, neutrino luminosity, and evolution of stars. LUNA (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) is an experimental approach for the study of nuclear fusion reactions based on an underground accelerator laboratory. Since 20 years the LUNA Collaboration has been directly measuring cross sections of nuclear processes relevant in several astrophysical scenarios in the underground laboratories of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) with unprecedented sensitivity. The latest LUNA results will be presented. Future researches will be carried out in the frame of the LUNA-MV project which aims at measuring several astrophysical key reactions. The scientific program of LUNA-MV as well as status and schedule will be presented.