Elon Musk has revealed SpaceX’s ambitious plan to establish a permanent lunar base, dubbed Lunar Base Alpha, by 2028. Central ...

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on Aug. 5, 2025, to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so ...

In 1958, the US Air Force drafted a top secret blueprint for an underground lunar base, aiming to seize the Moon as strategic high ground before the Soviet Union could. The plan promised a crewed ...

Apart from the geopolitical importance, there are other reasons why this move is critically important. A source of nuclear energy will be necessary for visiting Mars, because solar energy is weaker ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

From hidden lunar base blueprints to a lost Soviet rover that returned a signal decades later, this is the Cold War’s strangest battle for the Moon. Then comes the most unsettling chapter, the ...

When NASA astronauts return to the moon in 2024, they'll need a lunar base that allows them to stay on the surface. And the astronauts may build their base using something readily available: their ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish the light from an exoplanet and its host star so the former's atmosphere can be better explored? This is what a recent study accepted ...