In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

These five students from the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) took on that challenge through the NASA Plant the Moon ...

NASA would instead procure commercial launches and commercial spacecraft to ferry astronauts between the Earth and the Moon, while focusing the agency's long-term gaze toward Mars. CYA EUS?

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uncovered a critical flaw in how lunar and Martian rovers are tested on Earth. Simulations revealed that test results have been misleading for ...

The moon has no atmosphere, so the debris from the event could be widespread on the lunar surface, he added. On average, the moon is 238,855 miles away from Earth, according to NASA.

China has said it will land astronauts on the moon by 2030, while NASA is targeting a landing in 2027, though this has already been delayed.

NASA will now target April 2026 for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon, and mid-2027 for Artemis III, which is planned to land the first astronauts near the lunar South Pole.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the IM-2 moon mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The mission is to send the IM-2's lunar lander to the moon in ...