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

As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees between night and day weren't enough, personnel at future Moon bases will be at ...

How can moonquakes influence the locations of future human settlements on the Moon’s surface? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

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 ...

Last year, Musk said "the moon is a distraction." Now, he's talking about building a city there. The shift may be more ...

A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars.

Smithsonian scientists have mapped thousands of young ridges across the lunar maria, which are large, basaltic plains on the lunar surface formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. These features suggest ...

A new ESA-led project is investigating the ways that 3-D printing could be used to create and run a habitat on the Moon. Everything from building materials to solar panels, equipment and tools to ...

This risk was studied by a team led by Daniel Yahalomi of Columbia University's Department of Astronomy.

The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China's Chang'e-4 on the dark side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, ...

The Moon may seem like a lifeless, unchanging world, but new research reveals it’s more geologically active than previously understood. A team of Chinese scientists has identified 41 new landslides on ...