China and the U.S. are in a high-stakes race to build permanent lunar outposts. Can both nations coexist on the moon?

A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory ...

The experience of the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of “red alert” ...

The impetus for establishing a "Lunar Surface Moon Base" is that America is in a space race with China. For the first time, legislation has been unanimously passed that gives the go-ahead for NASA to ...

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

The companies say the partnership will help move expandable habitat technology toward operational missions by scaling up ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Discover how Gateway, a modular space station, redefines architecture for human life beyond Earth in the expanding ...

Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...