For astronauts to survive on the moon, they'll need three essential resources: water, oxygen, and fuel. These resources have been an integral part of plans to build permanent moon bases, which have ...

NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CCLPS task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region.

It will not only help future lunar settlers be self-sufficient but will help provide raw materials for space-based ...

Kent-based Blue Origin received an $190 million contract from NASA to land a science rover on the moon’s South Pole region.

As detailed in a new paper published today in the journal Joule, the team found that their proposed “photothermal strategy” — essentially converting light into heat — could effectively convert carbon ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists may have made one giant leap toward a self-sustaining moon base with the reported discovery of a way to turn moon dust into water, oxygen, and rocket fuel. "We never ...

A professor at the University of Texas at El Paso is part of a NASA team prepping for new missions to the moon.

The mission's goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA ...

Rocket crash meant to kick up lunar water; useful to future astronauts? Oct. 9, 2009 — -- NASA's LCROSS mission went plunging into a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole this ...