President Donald Trump's ambition to establish a permanent American presence on the moon faces a costly challenge: figuring ...

From searching for micro-cold trap ice to exploring underground lava tubes and testing space-made materials, NASA is laying ...

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As humanity looks toward future bases on the moon, plant cultivation will be critical for sustaining life there. Plants can provide food, oxygen, medicine, water purification and waste recycling, ...

Scientists studying Saturn’s moon Enceladus have discovered that its icy plumes may naturally concentrate materials from the ...

NASA and IBM’s Open-Source Lunar Model Turns 17 Years of Orbiter Data Into a Foundation for Lunar Science NASA and IBM ...

If you want to study the Moon, you should use lunar rocks. While that is a tempting thought, the amount of samples on hand is limited. Thus, Earth rocks become the gateway to experimentation.However, ...

Could Saturn’s moon tell us something about extraterrestrial life? In a Berlin lab, a thin beam of liquid water shoots into a vacuum and breaks into droplets. A laser hits them. A mass spectrometer ...

With support from the Iowa Space Grant Consortium, the Iowa 4-H Foundation, and the ISU Integrated Pest Management Program, ...

Humans won’t be the only ones aboard future NASA missions. At Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, researchers on the agency’s Dexterous Robotics Team are working on the next generation of advanced ...

The lead front page story in the New York Times this week was headlined: “Superpowers Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on Moon.” The nations involved: the ...

Enceladus may naturally separate and concentrate chemicals from its hidden ocean as droplets slowly freeze and shatter on ...