NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...

In 2031 it plans to launch Argonaut M1, a robotic lander that will be used to supply a future moon base. Japan’s national space agency is launching the DESTINY+ mission in 2025 to do a lunar ...

When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or-break. Phil Metzger is studying how to mitigate its dangers and use it as ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

Should it continue the Artemis program and establish a lunar base, or shift its focus directly to Mars? While using the Moon ...

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...

Astronauts on China's Tiangong space station successfully produce oxygen and rocket fuel using artificial photosynthesis, ...

The space agency did not address how the proposed layoffs would impact any future ventures to the Moon. Janet Petro, the current acting administrator, is overseeing the agency’s operations until ...

And the search for lunar ice is part of China’s preparations to build a research base ... doors for future exploration, we can’t yet use those findings to plant crops on the moon or extract ...