There is an isotope called helium-3 that could cool new quantum computers. It's rare on Earth, but plentiful on the moon. At a market price of $20 million a kilo, it might make economic sense to ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Along with international and commercial partners, NASA hopes that Artemis will enable a "sustained program of lunar exploration and ...

Along with international and commercial partners, NASA hopes that Artemis will enable a "sustained program of lunar exploration and development," which could include long-term facilities and habitats ...

NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a new directive from the agency’s interim administrator Sean Duffy. The plan revives a decades-old dream of scaling up ...

As they roll across shadowed regions of the moon's surface, future lunar rovers could develop hazardous buildups of electric charge on their wheels. Through new analysis published in Advances in Space ...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on protecting cultural heritage in outer space. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, ...