The latest blueprint for a permanent outpost on the Moon is not just about planting more flags in gray dust. It sketches a ...

Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission ...

SpaceX is no longer talking about the Moon as a brief stopover. The company is sketching out how a fleet of giant rockets, industrial-scale refueling in orbit, and modular habitats could turn the ...

A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats. Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each habitat ...

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NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered ...

Spacetech company Honeybee Robotics, which was acquired by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in 2022, has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like an oversized streetlight for a future ...

Thanks to the Artemis program, the United States and international and commercial partners will return astronauts to the moon in a few years. But, going beyond brief sorties to the lunar surface, what ...

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Smithsonian Institution provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As an astronomer and the co-chair of the International Astronomical Union’s working group Astronomy from the Moon, I’m on ...