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 ...

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 ...

A California startup wants to build the Moon’s first hotel, betting space tourism can help jump-start a lunar economy.

Japanese scientists say they've identified the perfect place on the moon to build a lunar base. They released a photo of what appears to be a large crater in the Marius Hills region of the moon's ...

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 ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA ...