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Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.

Florida Man Plotting to Build Web Servers on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

The Orion spacecraft in its journey past the Moon has captured a stunning, perspective-inducing photo that shows both the Earth and Moon in view.

Amazing Artemis Photo Shows Every Human, Alive or Dead, Plus the Moon

By Frank Landymore

Astronauts will make use of a specialized, pressurized rover that can handle any terrain the Moon throws at it, but it also doubles as an RV.

Advanced Transport

NASA Testing Cozy “Lunar RV” for Moon Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source.

China Approves Three Moon Missions After Discovering Mineral That Could Be Energy Source

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US and China are gearing up for an awkward confrontation if both decide to land their respective lunar rockets on similar spots at the Moon.

Awkward! The US and China Are Looking at the Same Moon Landing Sites

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA dropped an update on its official blog detailing the causes of their satellite's dropout. In a nutshell? A bad command and a software error.

We Finally Know Why NASA Lost Contact With Moonbound Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

China has created a map of the Moon's surface more detailed, and at a greater scale, than any single map that came before it.

China Publishes the Most Detailed Map of the Moon Ever Made

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

A new series of supercomputer-rendered animations shows what would happen to an Earth-like planet with a thin atmosphere if it collided with another object.

Science & Energy

Watch These Brutal Simulations of Apocalyptic Planetary Collisions

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese lander destined for the side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from the Earth — has now entered lunar orbit.

China’s Moon Lander Just Entered Lunar Orbit

By Jon Christian

China just successfully launched a rocket with a lunar rover on board that will hopefully get the first-ever close-up look at the dark side of the Moon.

China Launches First-Ever Lander Headed to Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China is officially launching its Chang'e--4 rover and probe on December 8, and it's planning to land them on the far side of the moon near the South Pole.

China to Land First-Ever Rover on Dark Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Arch Foundation plans to encode important books and crowdsourced images into synthetic DNA molecules and store them on the Moon.

A Nonprofit Plans to Store Human Knowledge in DNA and Store It on the Moon

By Jon Christian

Mark Watney sits on Mars in The Martian.

Author Of “The Martian” Says Colonizing Mars Is a Bad Idea

It Turns Out That Our Moon Once Had an Atmosphere

It Turns Out That Our Moon Once Had an Atmosphere

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One-Country Space Race? Russia Starts Moon Landing Trials With Plans to Colonize by 2045