The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a ...

There are many remarkable things happening out in space right now. But Monday’s much-hyped “super blue moon” isn’t one of them – at least not according to astronomers. “I think this is completely made ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his ...

Seems to me that processing tonnes of lunar regolith will involve lots of messy details that we don't know about yet. That's the real advantage to sending an excavator to the moon and running it.

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China space race, emphasizing American dominance off Earth as the backdrop for NASA’s next funding authorization.

In a move straight out of science fiction, NASA's latest scheme for moon and Mars habitats is as wild as it gets--mushroom houses. Courtesy of redhouse studios/NASA NASA is cooking up a plan that’s ...