The United States is moving from concept art to hardware in its push for a permanent foothold on the Moon, and nuclear power ...

A rail network on the Moon that connects different lunar bases could be realised within the next decade after a US government agency approved the concept for development. The US Defence Advanced ...

A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats. Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each habitat ...

Out: the train to space. In: the inter-moon-base express. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tapped Northrop Grumman to develop a concept for a lunar railroad, the defense prime ...

China unveils a concept video for an international research base on the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China ...

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar ...

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A still from a video released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) that outlines its ...

Thanks to the Artemis program, the United States and international and commercial partners will return astronauts to the moon in a few years. But, going beyond brief sorties to the lunar surface, what ...

Call it the Little Engine that Might. NASA says it is exploring the concept of building a railway system on the moon for the day when it becomes not just an object in the sky, but a working mine for ...

Spacetech company Honeybee Robotics, which was acquired by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in 2022, has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like an oversized streetlight for a future ...