NASA unveils a bold $20 billion plan to return to the moon, build a lunar base, expand commercial space activity and launch ...

NASA plans to develop a permanent moon base in three opening phases, investing $20 billion over seven years to create a human foothold.

But ambition alone can’t sustain a permanent lunar base. How NASA and the combined force of the commercial space sector build, test and execute will decide success. It’s hardware-led, but the ...

How does a lunar base stay alive through two weeks of darkness? That question sits at the center of NASA’s plan to push beyond short Apollo-style visits and build a sustained human presence near the ...

The plan cancels the Gateway lunar space station, with its resources being repurposed for the surface base. Development will occur in three phases, starting with robotic missions and leading to a ...

NASA unveiled plans to build a moon base near the lunar south pole that will one day allow for American astronauts to have a ...

Three years of radiation data collected on the far side of the moon show that Earth’s magnetic field still reaches the lunar ...