Late last year, President Trump directed NASA to “lead the return of humans to the moon.” For most folks, the meaning of this was pretty clear: Americans would ...

The technology-focused extension of the Pangaea geology field course, Pangaea-X, is in full swing this week on Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands. The test ...

The European Space Agency has its eyes on a Moon base 3D printed out of lunar soil at that. And the technology is getting closer and closer.

A vision of a future moon base that could be produced and maintained using 3-D printing.

What will the moon be used for and how big could moon bases be? The main things that I can see as near-term uses for the moon are. 1. Source of water for ...

The first lunar houses are likely to be made on site.

Rogers, who is famous for buying the rights to the video game Tetris and making the game an international hit, reopened the Mars habitat, which he built in 2013 ...

RUSSIA has announced plans to send robots to the moon to carry out the bulk of the work on the country's proposed lunar base.

Russia's federal space agency intends to establish a lunar colony by the year 2040. NASA, meanwhile, announced today that it'd have a continuous human ...

Steph Curry questioned the moon landing, and NASA wants to change his mind with a tour of their facility and a first-hand look at some moon rocks. How could ...

NASA published a marketing video on November 16 to hype up its plans to get started on constructing an orbiting and stationary lunar outpost. The [National ...

Nasa says it is going back to the Moon – and this time it's going to stay there. As well as setting up base there, Nasa hopes to use the Moon as a way to launch ...

Astronauts will be able to harvest the Moon's natural resources to sustain human life.

By 2019, China will become the first nation on earth to have sent a Lunar probe to the far side (sometimes called the dark side) of the moon. On December 8 ...

AN EAGLE-EYED theorist claims to have found an “alien base” inside one of the moon's craters.

There was a paper by Craig Davidson (presented by Zubrin) on why a lunar base is better than the proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) to ...

The dome where crew members practiced red-planet missions will now be converted to a simulated moon base.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is planning to deploy and to start operating a full-scale base on the surface of the Moon between 2036 and 2040, according to a ...

The Mars simulation dome will house a new mission to model life on the moon's surface, with test simulations expected to begin as soon as next week and ...

Humanity is inching closer to establishing colonies on other worlds. Is it really feasible? Here's everything you need to know: What's the timeline? The best ...

Later this week, China plans to launch its Chang'e-4 spacecraft to the far side of the lunar surface. The aim is to land a rover on the dark side of the moon for the ...

Nasa has big plans to set up a base on the moon... and then go beyond.

Cartersville High robotics team member Logan Warren, second from left, helps Cartersville Primary second-graders, from left, Will Galland, Kymburlyn Payne, ...

Election losses of two reliable NASA advocates emphasizes role Ted Cruz must play.

The Orientale Basin in a 4K NASA video of the lunar surface using observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Photo: NASA). Russian positioning ...

As China's Chang'-4 mission is about to head off to the far side of the Moon, Nature looks at the history and future of lunar missions.

A US Airman claims he was left terrified after viewing a photograph of the dark side of the Moon which exposed alien-built structures.

It is magnificently quiet at the rim of the lunar crater. Nearly 400 000 km away from Earth, the silence and vastness of the unknown terrain can be overwhelming.

The space race is heating up again in ways we haven't seen since the end of the Cold War. We haven't been to the moon since 1972 but a number of private ...

For nearly a half-decade, a small dome atop Mauna Loa was the home to "colonists" who lived and worked in a Mars-like environment.

Tucked away in a room in Longmont, among computers and craft supplies, a group of kids were letting cardboard and hot glue fly Saturday morning while ...

For a few years now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been talking seriously about building a habitable village on the moon, and 3D printing is a big part ...

Moscow argues that it has much to offer, but analysts say it is short of cash. In any event, Washington is already planning an American-led lunar station.

Almost 50 years since we first landed on the moon, NASA has made a major announcement, saying it's making a return. It also reveals a bold plan to establish a ...

WASHINGTON: According to the Pew Research Center, 7 percent of Americans say Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin never landed ...

'First Man' sound editors Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan discuss the project that took them to space with Damien Chazelle.

While it is widely believed that the 1969 Apollo 11 mission did successfully deliver the first people to the Moon, many still claim that the famous moon landing ...

MOON WITH A VIEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin with space boss Dmitry Rogozin (Pic: GETTY). Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, has revealed the ...

"Waste of Space" is the third book in Stuart Gibbs' Moon Base Alpha series.

Manned space missions have been confined to low-Earth orbit for decades, but NASA is looking to change that. ...

Russia's space department is opening old wounds from the Cold War's space race after promising to check whether American astronauts have actually been on ...

A YOUTUBE conspirator believes he has found proof of a “secret space programme” being conducted on the moon.

Researchers are ramping up plans for living on the Moon.

The final update to Prey goes live soon and another VR experience will be released in 2019.

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin announced Wednesday that the Russian space agency will, together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, develop a lunar.

European Space Agency scientists are exploring ways to 3D print objects using artificial lunar soil. And the possibilities could be endless.

Two University of Queensland students are exploring whether solar power could provide around the clock electricity and thermal energy for a moon base or ...

Berlin, Germany (PRWEB) December 11, 2018 -- PTScientists, a German private space company aiming to be the first private mission to land on the Moon, and ...

Welcome to Edition 1.28 of the Rocket Report! Lots of news this week, and much of it good, with Stratolaunch reaching an important test, Firefly winning a sweet ...

LAS LAJAS, Neuquen Province, Argentina — In the middle of the Patagonian desert, more than 40 miles from the nearest town, sits a $50 million space base the ...

Reusable vs. expendable — Trump out to sack Air Force Secreatry?

There's this idea in space travel that if you can avoid carrying something with you, you absolutely should. Until we invent teleporters or space elevators or ...

A year when life in Houston mostly got back to normal — beautiful, infuriating, funny, heartbreaking normal. By Lisa Gray. There are years that define Houston.

The vice president went to Houston to talk up the Trump administration's plans to retrace the footsteps of Apollo.

This op-ed originally appeared in the March 26, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The recent amazing success of the Falcon Heavy launch offers America ...

Moon bases have long been a staple of science fiction, but a renewed push for lunar exploration suggests they're on the brink of becoming science fact. Half a ...

The European Space Agency is developing an astronaut center in Cologne, Germany, where it will replicate the surface of the moon. Dubbed Luna, the facility ...

Australia's space mission control centre will be right here in Adelaide, at the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site. The Advertiser can reveal South Australia has ...

A group of Chinese volunteers has emerged from 110 days of isolation in a virtual "lunar lab", state media reported Tuesday, as the country pursues its ambition ...

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine has revealed hopes for a permanent base on the moon. At a meeting at the Johnson Space Center in Houston this week, ...

The CSIRO says Australian industry needs to step up and get involved in NASA's plans for human bases on the Moon.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced ambitious plans to establish a long-term base on the moon.

This account of the historic first descent is available in full, with additional images, in the 2019 Photo Annual now on newsstands. Photography by Nick Kalisz ...

Researchers are analyzing volcanic powder from Earth to learn how to build with moon dust.

Elon Musk has tweeted that a moonbase will be created in 2025. A SpaceX BFR with a refueling in orbit would be able to take about 100 tons to the moon.

NASA's successful launch Saturday of the InSight lander on an exploratory mission to Mars – costing taxpayers about $814 million – is just the latest example of ...

North Korea is expanding military facilities thought to house long-range missiles that can hit the U.S., according to a think-tank report that revives doubts about ...

The space agency recently confirmed an abundance of water on the Moon situated in hundreds of patches of ice deposited in the north and south poles.

The latest industry roadmap published by CSIRO encourages the growing domestic space sector to join with international partners to adopt a bold challenge ...

In September of 2016, Musk treated the world to an early sneak-peak at his proposed super-heavy launch vehicle. Previously known as the Mars Colonial ...

Russia's space agency says it is considering establishing a base on the moon, possibly manned by robot avatars.

Five reads to make you smarter. Plus: why a postdoc might not be the right career move and the hunt for a mysterious polio-like disease in the US.

Our solar system is big. Way big. In fact, if Earth were the size of a marble, the solar system out to Neptune would cover an area the size of San Francisco.

Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the European Space Agency to create a settlement on the moon.

China plans to operate a science research centre on the moon as part of its ambitious space programme.The National Space Administration said that the outpost ...

The first image from A24's comedy series Moonbase 8 has been released and it is delightfully regal and awkward with NASA prestige. Exclusively announced in ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian cosmonauts will carry out a 14-day lunar landing mission after 2030, according to a presentation made by Russia's general ...

The indie studio behind "Moonlight" and "Lady Bird" is behind the first season of this six-episode comedy series.

The light-speed advancements of technology can give us glimpses of what the future may hold for the credit union industry. What may become part of that future ...

People are criticizing NASA's plan to build the Lunar Gateway, a new space station that orbits the Moon. Maybe there's a way to fix the idea — by leaving the ...

Karl R. Wolfe was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York, after he was struck from behind by a tractor trailer traveling southbound on North ...

Using NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, researchers determined ice is present in craters on the poles.

Elon Musk mentioned Moonbase Alpha as his inspiration during an announcement about the first man to travel on the BFR to the moon. Learn about it here.

Andy Weir's "Artemis" (Broadway Books, 2018) is launching in bookstores today (July 3). Here's what Weir thinks of NASA's new plan to send astronauts to the ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia plans to create a long-term man-visited base on the Earth's natural satellite and study the moon with the help of robot avatars as ...

A satellite on the far side of the moon might not be quite what the Chinese say, Air Force official warns. China's lunar probes may one day threaten critical U.S. ...

In the coming decades, many space agencies hope to conduct crewed missions to the Moon and even establish outposts there. In fact, between NASA, the ...

A new 'Moon Direct' plan created by Mars Society's Robert Zubrin could send astronauts to the moon faster and cheaper than current NASA strategies can.

RUSSIA is building a Moon transport base in what marks a massive space infrastructure drive.

In a cavernous room at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA engineers are assembling a spaceship that in the next few years will transport humans back ...

NASA is no stranger to amateur science enthusiasts criticizing their work, but Robert Zubrin, the President of the Mars Society, has taken a step furt...

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions aim to establish a 'sustainable presence' on the moon, paving the way for science and technology ...

In his reaction to the December 6 Chinese Global Times article quoting experts saying China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) may require five or six ...

In the coming years, we may see manned missions to the moon. Science, politics, and celestial cash grabs are at the forefront of why people want to go back.

WHITEHORSE, YK – Winterlong Brewing has announced details of a trio of new and returning beers that will be available this month. Out today in 650 ml bottles ...

Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people ...

China's lunar program is setting ambitious goals, including exploring both lunar poles by 2030 and, further in the future, sending manned missions to the moon ...

New Moon, the second installment in the Twilight Saga, was when the series really started to find its groove. It took a lot of work behind the scenes.

A new facility in the works at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany will soon serve as a three-part moon analogue environment on Earth, the agency ...

NASA's new focus has been made clear: the space agency is sending humans back to the Moon — this time, in a sustainable way. At least, that's the claim made ...