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When you look into the void, the void, inevitably, also looks back at you.

NASA’s New Moon Rocket Is So Huge You Can See It from Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Aerospace startup Venturi Astrolab has shown off a futuristic new interplanetary rover meant to ferry astronauts across the surface of the Moon and Mars.

New Moon Rover Looks Like a Giant Baby Stroller for Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is finally ready to roll out the first rocket designed to return the first astronauts to the Moon since the 1970s.

NASA Is Finally Rolling Its Giant Moon Rocket Out to the Launch Pad

By Victor Tangermann

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.

A Derelict Rocket Just Smashed Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

The US military is looking to have spy satellites patrol the orbit around the Moon according to a recently shared video, as spotted by Ars Technica.

US Military Announces Plans for Satellite Orbiting the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon are turning out to be an absolute disaster, according to today's status update.

NASA Descends Into Chaos as Moon Program Revealed to Be Way Behind, Over Budget

By Victor Tangermann

The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon.

2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It appears that nobody knows exactly what is going on with that rocket that's set to crash into the moon.

Experts Say China Is Probably Lying About the Rocket Crashing Into the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

China’s Yutu-2 rover just won’t stop making weird discoveries on the Moon. Its latest are several mysterious glass spheres found on the far side of the lunar surface.

China Says Rover Discovered Glass Spheres on the Dark Side of the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

At a space conference this week, SpaceX director of civil space development Nick Cummings teased future plans of a Moon base.

SpaceX Director Teases Moon Base Staffed by “Hundreds or Thousands”

By Victor Tangermann

It's illegal for any one nation to lay claim to property in outer space, but that's not stopping one economic think tank from pushing for lunar property sales.

Economist Mocked for Proposing That We Sell the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

An old SpaceX rocket is about to reach its final destination after a roughly six year journey — and crash on the Moon in spectacular fashion.

A Derelict SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

An aging SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon — and one space enthusiast has captured it on video.

Guy With Huge Telescope Spots Tumbling SpaceX Rocket About to Crash Into Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Whoops. It turns out that reports of a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon were greatly exaggerated -- and it belongs to someone else entirely.

Fake News! The Rocket Crashing Into the Moon Is NOT SpaceX’s

By Tony Ho Tran

Steve Jurczyk, former NASA administrator, has co-founded a commercial space infrastructure company to build robotic outposts near the Moon.

Former NASA Head Creates Startup to Build Robot Outpost Near Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Chinese researchers published a paper today in Science Robotics that revealed new data about the lunar surface gathered by the Yutu-2 rover.

The Moon’s Backside Is Surprisingly Sticky, China’s Rover Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in China are developing an "artificial Moon: facility that can simulate the gravity of the lunar surface with the help of magnets.

China Building “Artificial Moon” Facility That Simulates Low Gravity With Magnets

By Tony Ho Tran

A global team of scientists says they've detected water on the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided.

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.

Remember the “Moon Cube”? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh

By Noor Al-Sibai

In yet another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel, Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.

NASA Is Installing Amazon Alexa on Its Next Moon Mission, for Some Cursed Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

A team is ready to open a Moon soil container from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases for testing.

Scientists Opening Sealed Container From Final Moon Landing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China spotted a puzzling "mystery house" on the surface of the Moon, a cube-shaped object hiding in plain sight. The internet had a field day as a result.

People Have Some Wild Theories About the Cube China Found on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 captured images of a cube on the Moon's surface this week. The rover is moving in to check out the object.

Chinese Rover Exploring What Appears to Be Cube-Shaped Object on Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter.

Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Back in October, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently had to adjust its orbit to dodge out of the way of India's Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.

NASA’s Moon Orbiter Almost Crashed Into India’s Moon Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is sending a spacecraft to the lunar surface to explore "one of the most distinctive and enigmatic natural features on the Moon."

2024 NASA Landing to Explore Mysterious Magnetic “Swirl” on Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered that the Moon might have frozen pockets of carbon dioxide — and it could be used to create lunar greenhouses in the future.

Researchers Say CO2 “Traps” On Moon Could Be Used to Grow Plants

By Tony Ho Tran

Earlier this month, NASA announced where it is planning to probe the lunar surface for water ice — potentially a watershed moment.

NASA Reveals Moon Location for Ice Drilling Mission Next Year

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, scientists say they found evidence that the quasi-Moon is an ancient fragment of the Earth’s primary Moon.

Study: Earth Has Another Tiny Moon That Broke Off from the Big One

By Tony Ho Tran

The Moon's top layer of rocky soil, known as "regolith," likely contains enough oxygen for 8 billion people to survive for about 100,000 years.

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen Buried Beneath Its Surface to Sustain Billions of People

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA boss Bill Nelson has made it clear: the mission to return humans to the Moon is delayed a year — and it’s mostly Jeff Bezos’ fault.

NASA Head Says Moon Landing Delayed a Year, Blames Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is turning to the private industry to keep the doomed and Moon-bound Space Launch System alive — and for the next 30 year or so.

NASA Begs Companies to Clone Its Super-Expensive Moon Rocket for Cheap

By Victor Tangermann

The agency fully assembled the Space-Launch System (SLS) rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday night.

NASA Completes Assembly of Rocket for Upcoming Moon Mission

By Tony Ho Tran

Kilm Shipenko, the Russian director of “The Challenge," told reporters at a news conference that he’d be willing to film a sequel on the Moon or Mars

Russian Director Who Filmed Movie on ISS Says He’s Doing the Moon or Mars Next

By Tony Ho Tran

In which we examine the techincal, legal, and ethical aspects of Elon Musk painting his face on the surface of the Moon.

Could Elon Musk Paint a Giant Picture of His Face on the Moon?

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California are projecting that humanity could become a multi-world species within the 21st century.

NASA Scientists Predict Settlements on Moons of Saturn, Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Florida just returned a Moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission. It vanished without a trace until he bought it at a garage sale.

Florida Man Returns Missing NASA Moon Rock he Bought at Garage Sale

By Dan Robitzski

The Verge has obtained legal filings that show NASA's frustration with Blue Origin's request to negotiate its $5.9 billion lunar lander contract.

In Newly-Released Documents, NASA Scoffed at Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson once again confirmed that Jeff Bezos' lawsuit will definitely delay the Artemis Moon missions and landing.

Head of NASA: Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit Likely to Delay Human Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists are studying lunar rock samples to assess whether or not they're a good fuel source for nuclear fusion.

China Analyzing Moon Rocks as Potential Fusion Power Source

By Tony Ho Tran

China's Chang'e-5 orbiter, the spacecraft that helped ferry Moon rocks back to Earth last year before heading to deep space, just started a return journey.

Chinese Probe Returns to Moon From Deep Space, for Unknown Purpose

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's SLS rocket and Orion are still undergoing tests that were supposed to finish earlier this Summer. Now the agency is blaming the pandemic.

NASA Source: No Way Artemis Moon Mission Is Launching This Year

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has confirmed that Blue Origin's lawsuit against the agency will result in "further delay" for NASA's return to the Moon.

NASA Head Confirms Blue Origin Lawsuit Will Delay Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has peered into the sky for an epic time lapse — and caught the Red Planet's tiny moon Deimos.

NASA Rover’s New, Gorgeous Time Lapse Spots Tiny Martian Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just got its first round of funds from NASA to develop a lunar lander capable of sending the first astronauts to the surface of the Moon.

SpaceX Gets Huge Check From NASA for Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX founder Elon Musk hinted that Starship will likely be ready to land astronauts on the Moon before the projected 2024 launch date.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will “Probably” Land Humans on Moon Before 2024

By Tony Ho Tran

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it will take about eight Starship and Super Heavy booster launches to fill up one lunar variant for a trip to the Moon.

Elon Musk Says It Could Take Eight Starship Launches to Fuel Up a Single Moon Trip

By Victor Tangermann

Juno has created a gorgeous infrared map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby last month, including the first-ever glimpse of its north polar region.

NASA’s Juno Probe Creates Stunning Map of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Moon naturally churns rocks from deep within its mantle back to the surface, and NASA wants to grab some for analysis.

NASA Scientists Want to Obtain “Fragments” From Deep Inside Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists found the first ever evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor on One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla's Autopilot system got confused as it cruised down the highway and mistook the Moon for an endless string of yellow traffic lights.

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Moon for Yellow Traffic Light

By Dan Robitzski

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Amateur astronomer Kai Ly pored over years of data to find and confirm a previously-undiscovered moon that's orbiting around Jupiter.

Jupiter Officially Has Yet Another Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Cassini's observations that found Enceladus is expelling plumes of methane gas suggests the moon's oceans may be habitable to Earthlike microorganisms.

Scientists Intrigued by Possible Signs of Life on Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.

Military Report Says Space Force Must Prepare for Moon Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.

We’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

By Dan Robitzski

NASA engineers have finished assembling the Space Launch System that will take astronauts back to the Moon. The rocket is taller than the Statue of Liberty.

NASA Has Assembled a Megarocket to Take Humans to the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

China's space program is finally preparing to loan out its newly-retrieved lunar samples to scientists for their research.

China Is Now Letting Scientists Study the Rocks It Took From the Moon Last Year

By Dan Robitzski

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is well aware of a potentially fatal flaw in the company's plan to use a Moon base as a refueling station.

NASA Is Planning to Land on Far Side of the Moon for the First Time

By Tony Ho Tran

Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.

Congressman Asks If Changing the Moon’s Orbit Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski