The advent of SpaceX’s Starship presents new possibilities for space exploration, particularly in establishing humanity’s first moon base. As the world looks to the stars for future colonization, the ...

China has released updated plans for an international lunar research base, aimed at establishing a permanent presence on the ...

If all goes to plan, by 2040 people may be living on the moon in houses made—essentially—from mushrooms. At least, that’s how astrobiologist Dr. Lynn J. Rothschild is picturing it. She imagines domed ...

Just last year, South Korea decided to get serious about making its mark on the cosmos. A big part of that was the development of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), its own space agency. At ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

With the turmoil at NASA over severe budget cuts, it's easy to forget the space agency is trying to return astronauts to the Moon and get there before America's geopolitical rivals. Transportation ...

Russian and Chinese engineers aim to use robotic systems to autonomously deliver, install, and operate a nuclear reactor that will be used to power the ILRS lunar facility. As all eyes were fixated on ...

If you were alive when 2001: A Space Odyssey was in theaters, you might have thought it didn’t really go far enough. After all, in 1958, the US launched its first satellite. The first US astronaut ...