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NASA's interim head Sean Duffy told employees during a town hall last week that "sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress."

NASA Head Says It’s Time to Cut Back on Astronaut Safety to Beat China to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Experts warned that the United States is at risk of having China beat it to the Moon as its Artemis program continues to lag behind.

Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: tiny orange beads.

Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has revealed that it's considering reprioritizing its goals to accelerate Elon Musk’s push to send humans to Mars.

NASA Eyes 2026 Mars Launch as Musk Pushes to Skip the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump has called on NASA to cancel its "grossly expensive and delayed" Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after Artemis 3.

White House Announces Plans to Rip Up NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Incoming NASA head and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman wants to return astronauts to the Moon, defying Elon Musk's desire to skip it.

Incoming Head of NASA Defies Elon Musk on Order to Abandon Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

The permanently shadowed regions of the Earth's Moon could shelter microbial lifeforms, according to new research.

Scientists Say There May Be Life on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

Amid Donald Trump and Elon Musk's push to eradicate the woke mind virus, NASA has removed language about its non-white men astronauts.

NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the Moon's geology.

Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying

By Victor Tangermann

In an effort to send Earth's best to the Moon, the private space company Intuitive Machines succeeded in some ways — and failed in others.

Humankind Has Infected the Moon With Imagine Dragons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Firefly Aerospace has shared footage of showing its NASA-sponsored lunar lander, Blue Moon, softly touching down on the surface of the Moon.

Amazing Video Shows Spacecraft Touching Down on Surface of Moon

By Frank Landymore