The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

NASA Glenn is leading America's urgent push to beat China in establishing the first lunar power plant by 2030, with implications that could reshape our future in space.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The possible lunar base designed by Foster + Partners would have room enough for four moon ...

Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon. Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to ...

In his first bold policy stroke as NASA’s interim head, Sean Duffy has directed the agency to put a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by decade’s end. This is not a lark. If humanity means to ...

Early in the Space Race, before the formation of NASA and even when the new organization was getting off the ground, the U.S. military took the lead on rocket development and space exploration. The ...

“We’re behind, right? … We have to marshal all of our resources, all of our focus on going to the moon, which is what we’re going to do,” he said during a Department of Transportation press conference ...

Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that can be compacted down to form bricks to construct lunar shelters, or ...