Look to the west to catch Venus and Jupiter shining bright, with Saturn and Mars visible in the east for early risers, and ...

NASA has unveiled its ambitious plan to build the first permanent human base on the Moon’s South Pole. The project will ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned ...

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA’s moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to ...

NASA's Jared Isaacman will lead a news conference today (June 30) to provide the latest update on the ambitious plan to build ...

The event will begin today at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency. The moon base is a core piece of NASA's Artemis program, ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain (ERNEST) test rover has been put through its paces with great ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...