We’re looking to go back to the Moon. Not just with robots this time, but with astronauts, too! They’ll be doing all kinds of interesting things when they get there. Maybe they’ll even work ...

Project Horizon was a Cold War idea for creating a nuclear-powered lunar outpost, staffed with heavily armed soldiers, by the mid-1960s.

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

After this, attempts were made to revive the Moon base idea based around new launchers, such as the Lunar Expeditionary Complex from 1974 and the Energia Lunar Expedition from 1988. Yet none of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we ...

Now, it seems that an underground Chinese moon base might be on the agenda for the future, which could utilize lava tubes as a starting point. Lava tubes are present all over the moon. These cave ...

Publisher Gaijin Entertainment and developer Team Matter have announced Active Matter, an SCP-inspired player-versus-player ...

If astronauts on the moon are to avoid harmful radiation, long-term lunar bases will need to be shielded by 2 to 3 metres of regolith – the moon’s surface layer of rock and dust. Jingnan Guo ...

The aim is to sustain that base by tapping into the Moon's natural resources. The findings have been published as two papers in the journal Nature Astronomy. Unlike previous detections of water in ...

How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do you think they will have on your generation? Read this article and post your comments and questions for Matt Richtel by Nov. 14. By The ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...