In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a ...

A US Senate committee has directed NASA to begin work on a moon base "as soon as is practicable." Under legislation advanced ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has committed the United States to building permanent infrastructure on the lunar surface, ...

Astroport Space Technologies is developing construction tools for use with Venturi Astrolab’s self-driving rovers to build ...

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered ...

China is developing low-cost lunar cargo options for its expanding moon program A state-owned space contractor has unveiled a concept for an “economical lunar cargo transport” system as China prepares ...

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar ...

China unveils a concept video for an international research base on the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats. Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each habitat ...

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Smithsonian Institution provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As an astronomer and the co-chair of the International Astronomical Union’s working group Astronomy from the Moon, I’m on ...

Engineers in China are exploring a new robotic system designed to operate as a ...