China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of water at the ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027 ... Landing site: Near the Shackleton Crater, close to the south pole. Target landing date: March 6 or 7. Objectives: The mission's ...

A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The project takes place within a giant vacuum sphere, pushing the limits of ...

After years of delays, NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon commenced in a big way more than two years ago, starting with the unmanned Artemis 1 in November 2022. The legacy is continuing now ...

Chang'e 7 is designed to carry out some serious science as well. The mission is destined to land near the edge of Shackleton Crater in the Moon's south polar region. The permanently shadowed floor of ...

NASA's Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth's moon is closer than ever to ... the gritty reality of building a permanent base on an airless, dusty, radiation-blasted ...

With NASA’s Artemis programme aiming to put humans back on the surface of the moon in 2027 and eventually set up a permanent base there, that knowledge is becoming increasingly important.

The moon is an integral part of the sky above us. Over time, each month’s full moon has acquired a unique name of its own: ...

Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China could look to laser power transmission from lunar orbit to supply spacecraft on the moon and solve ... shadowed craters, thought to hold ...