A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...

A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3 ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

The findings hold significance for agencies planning long-term crewed missions to the moon's south pole, such as NASA with its Artemis program.If ice can be found and harnessed on the moon, it ...

A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for ...

Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future, Xinhua News reported ...

A robot works in a simulated environment for space mining at a lab of China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, ...

Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the company ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon's south pole and tipped over.

Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research. A team of scientists led by Durga ...