Humans are preparing to return to the moon, but this time to stay. Scientists and engineers are planning long term habitats, ...

Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be ...

Forget asteroid mining and bases on Titan. In Part 2, we continue our ruthless scientific audit of the solar system. We evaluate the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, and Pluto, assigning a realistic ...

As humans barrel ever closer to colonizing the Moon, the prospect of lunar mining is also becoming more real — and the consequences just might be dire. Those experts make a straightforward point: the ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

Rolls-Royce unveiled a concept model for a miniature nuclear reactor that could go to the moon. The reactor could one day power a colony of lunar astronauts. The company aims to have a reactor ready ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 26, 2012 — -- A colony on the moon? Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich floated the idea before a massive audience on Florida's space coast. Thousands lost jobs there ...

Researchers at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen have created a new robot optimized for lunar colonization. Meet iStruct, the lunar robot. The ...