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 ...

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to ...

NASA has just crossed a threshold that turns its next Moon flight from an abstract plan into a tangible vehicle, ready to be put through the final, unforgiving tests of human spaceflight. With the ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth. In the lobby of Interlune, a 3-foot-wide tabletop diorama shows an idyllic, ...

Russia is planning to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon within the next 10 years to support its lunar space programme.

From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed space exploration as a race. As U.S.-China space ...