Architectural students working with the European Space Agency have developed a concept for a sustainable lunar habitat.

The European Space Agency has teamed up with a group of architecture students to speculate on the future design of sustainable lunar habitats.

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing, the space race has been reinvigorated by China, India and private space companies, which are locked in a ...

Space may be the final frontier, but over the years technological advances has brought the idea of humans inhabiting space a lot closer. The European Space ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia plans to deliver a reusable cargo spacecraft, a heavy lunar rover for mining and modules for a lunar base to the Moon in ...

Exploring the space is no longer just a dream, and it appears that astronauts have big plans for the future. A moon base is not out of the questions and many ...

A multidisciplinary team of architecture students, aerospace engineers and biologists working with the European Space Agency (ESA) has presented a new ...

The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China's Chang'e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. Last week, China announced its plans to follow ...

The European Space Agency revealed it has signed up rocket maker ArianeGroup to develop plans for a moon base that could be used to mine material from ...

Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilization and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire ...

Yes album artist Roger Dean, who will show original works at the 24th L.A. Art Show, discusses his dismissed 'Avatar' lawsuit and building a moon base in ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michelle Hanlon, University of Mississippi ...

T he 10th and youngest person to ever walk on the Moon, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot, General Charlie Duke, is launching the 30th annual Flagstaff Festival of ...

The new year is ramping up to be a historic one for the private space industry as it endeavors — along with its partners at NASA — to return humans.

North Korea has a clandestine base that houses intermediate-range missiles capable of hitting Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, a US think tank said on Friday.

The United States has a chance to establish a strategic presence on the Moon's key terrain before others do. The question is whether will we get out of own way ...

As part of its quest to see the first cosmonauts walk on the Moon by the 2030s, Russia's space agency is sending a take-off/landing complex to the lunar surface ...

Manned space missions have been confined to low-Earth orbit for decades, but NASA is looking to change that. After speaking in general terms about a return to ...

BEIJING, China — China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday morning Beijing time, the latest milestone marking the ...

Researchers are ramping up plans for living on the Moon.

Chinese space officials are planning robotic trips to the lunar south pole to prepare the way for a crewed moon base — and they're aiming for a Mars mission in ...

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

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

The meteorite may have been blasted off of Earth during an impact, mixed with lunar rocks, and brought back to Earth 4 billion years later by astronauts.

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.

The landing site of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe has been named "Statio Tianhe". This was after the spacecraft made the first-ever soft landing on the far side ...

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 ...

NASA has revealed the names of nine US companies that now will join it in its journey to the Moon. During a press conference held yesterday, NASA talked ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and UK metallurgic company Metalysis have launched a €500,000-reward competition to devise systems that will aid space ...

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 ...

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

Can China build a lunar base? Absolutely. Can human beings survive on the Moon and other planets for the long term? The answer to that is less clear.

China launched a robotic spacecraft to the moon's far side (not the dark side) in December. Now it's poised to explore a crucial region we never see.

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 ...

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 first lunar houses are likely to be made on site.

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SEOUL • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is ready to accept the dismantlement and inspection of a high-profile nuclear plant, a South Korean presidential ...

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

FILE - This illustration made available by NASA shows the rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The exploratory vehicle landed on Jan. 24, 2004, and ...

THE space exploration agency has revealed hopes for a permanent presence on the moon with its ambitious Gateway project. The mission would allow human ...

RUSSIA has expanded on its plans to build a permanent base on the surface of the moon.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: U.S. government tells NASA it's time for a 'permanent presence around ...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who is retired now, is pretty good at social media. So good, in fact, that he seems to know about the Internet's love for anime ...

NASA has already announced plans to establish a permanent base on the Moon (even if the Mars Society isn't too happy with them), but its plans involve...

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 ...

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 ...

To learn how to build with moon dust, researchers are turning to volcanic powder here on Earth. Several countries are planning lunar missions over the next ...

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 ...

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 ...

China completed the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon this week — a technical achievement and a coup for the country's ambitions to eclipse the U.S. ...

On 17 January 2019 ESA signed a study contract with Comex and its partners DITF and OeWF. Pextex is a two-year project to identify materials and textiles that ...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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.

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. -- Snoqualmie Pass received more snow Tuesday than had ever been recorded in a single day! The pass received 31. 5 inches of ...

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 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.

It's said that astrology can offer some clues as to a person's basic personality, characteristics, and potentially even their strengths and weaknesses. That's what ...

NASA is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide the foundation for human exploration deeper into the solar system.

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 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 ...

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

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. ...

Mars Society President Robert Zubrin campaigns for Moon Direct, his plan to set up settlements on the moon without the need for a NASA-style Gateway.

China's Chang'e-4 probe will attempt to grow plants using a "mini lunar biosphere" on the moon's barren surface.

Since Elon Musk decided that now would be a good moment to test fire his fart-powered Mars rocket engine (no really, those things run on standard methane, ...

Here's a primer on the Gateway, the moon-orbiting space station that NASA plans to start building in the next half-decade.

It's 2050. The Moon has been colonised by China, with its Lunar Palace base growing potatoes, wheat and carrots – though residents also need to get used to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Planet Earth isn't enough. Fortunately, as NASA flounders, visionary tycoons like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are leading the way on spaceships and moon bases.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In the 1960's, NASA was developing ambitious offshoots for the Apollo Program - primarily establishment of a Moon base intended to extend humanity's time on ...

Leading military space strategy experts are pondering the role of cislunar space in the context of President Donald Trump's plan to establish a U.S. Space Force.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he likes US President Donald Trump's idea for a military space force, suggesting it would be a good idea to set up “defense” ...

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 ...

The last time anyone visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Astronauts often say the biggest reasons humans haven't ...

NASA is set to pick up where the where the Apollo missions left in 1972 as the agency moves towards establishing an orbital base around the Moon, under the ...

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.

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 ...

The television studio of Roscosmos, the space industry giant responsible for Russia's space flight program, has released a treasure trove of video materials on ...

Moon bases are back in style, and NASA could go back to the blueprint it laid a decade ago to fill out the details of a plan for long-term lunar exploration.

SpaceX's plans to send a Japanese billionaire beyond low-Earth orbit on BFR, revealed in-depth last week, have been updated by CEO Elon Musk.

CHINA'S latest lunar mission will run into an advanced alien civilisation on the mysterious dark side of the moon. That's according to crackpot conspiracy ...