A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The project takes place within a giant vacuum sphere, pushing the limits of ...

NASA's Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth's moon is closer than ever to ... the gritty reality of building a permanent base on an airless, dusty, radiation-blasted ...

With NASA’s Artemis programme aiming to put humans back on the surface of the moon in 2027 and eventually set up a permanent base there, that knowledge is becoming increasingly important.

Who knows — perhaps future Mars rovers, moon bases, and even moon railroad cars will contain springy metal, designed for the extremes of other worlds. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the ...

Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China could look to laser power transmission from lunar orbit to supply spacecraft on the moon and solve ... for large-scale bases, but bring ...

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. The logic of ...

The mission involved two separate Saturn V launches: one typical Apollo launch with three astronauts and one uncrewed launch carrying the base. Two astronauts would descend to the Moon’s surface ...

The second phase, from 2028 to 2035, envisions China using these advancements to land taikonauts on the Moon, establish a permanent base there, and execute complex manned missions to Mars.

Three experiments will study how lunar dust adheres to various materials, which could inform future attempts to build a Moon base. There is also a computer that will test strategies for coping ...