Several companies firmly believe that mining for helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a real potential money-maker. But is there an ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

The interior of the mysterious far side of the satellite could be chillier than the side constantly facing Earth, according ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

Japanese carmaker Honda is offering its regenerative fuel cell (RFC) system for use in Astrobotic's lunar Vertical Solar ...

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China space race, emphasizing American dominance off ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his ...

Seems to me that processing tonnes of lunar regolith will involve lots of messy details that we don't know about yet. That's the real advantage to sending an excavator to the moon and running it.

In a move straight out of science fiction, NASA's latest scheme for moon and Mars habitats is as wild as it gets--mushroom houses. Courtesy of redhouse studios/NASA NASA is cooking up a plan that’s ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...