The rocket set for moon impact is the upper stage of a Falcon 9 that transported a pair of lunar landers. While the landers successfully reached the surface, the rocket was left adrift since it did ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA shares an update on its multibillion-dollar effort to build a permanent moon base on the lunar south pole. On Tuesday, the U.S. space agency announced nearly $600 million in ...

As NASA joins up with Europe to plan a lunar astronaut base, one EU designer envisions robotically building a fantastical ...

Compared to places with eerie reputations like Roswell and Area 51, the Bay Area isn’t exactly a hotbed of UFO activity. The ...

The tantalizing prospect of inspecting a mysterious monolith on the surface of Mars moon Phobos was proposed earlier this ...

Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that ...

NASA aims to establish a permanent human presence on Earth’s moon in the 2030s. Scientists and engineers need to carefully consider the life cycle of all materials that go into building, maintaining, ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but it's actually fairly common in science: The act of investigating something can easily hinder our ability to do so again in the future. Take the Moon, for example.

Building a long‑term base on the Moon will require extensive planning - a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it NASA plans to build a semipermanent base on the Moon in the ...

A lunar base could allow for research, economic activities and lunar mining. Such an operation has potential benefits, but lots of challenges await NASA.