NASA officials on Tuesday detailed the space agency’s plans to establish a lunar base, where astronauts could live and work long-term with the ultimate goal of studying the moon and its origins, as well as how best to send the first humans to Mars.

Artemis II is capturing global attention—but it’s only the next stride in NASA’s accelerating campaign to return humans to the moon and beyond. Artemis II will mark the first time humans set out to attempt a lunar flybyin over 50 years, another ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In an effort to send Earth’s best, the private space company ...

NASA plans to bring humankind back to the moon, but it first needs to figure out exactly where to land. The space agency has outlined nine potential lunar landing sites for its Artemis III mission, the agency's first planned return to the moon in over five ...

Humanity is now the dominant force influencing the Moon's future, according to scientists calling for a formal declaration of a new geological epoch called the "Lunar Anthropocene". In a report in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team of American ...

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 book Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for ...

As he took his final steps before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan had some poignant closing words: “We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.” It was December 14, 1972, and Cernan ...