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NASA wants to create a marketplace to buy and sell lunar dirt from private companies
NASA has set the goal of landing the first American woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. …
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The moon is sprinkled with patches of frozen water, NASA scientists discovered. Mining it may be crucial for travel to Mars and beyond.
NASA may need to mine water from the moon to send astronauts into deep space. Two new studies indic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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After Mangalyaan, India wants to be the first to explore the dark side of the moon
Even the US has expressed its aspirations to establish a base on the moon with heliu…
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Ice may exist on the moon's surface at hundreds of locations - and that could be very good news for colonizing space
Daytime temperatures on the moon can soar to hundreds of degrees, and ice exposed to a vacuum will …
Dave Mosher
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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company h…
Marianne Guenot
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The moon holds hundreds of billions of dollars of untapped resources - here's how we could mine it
One of the most valuable minerals on the moon are rare earth metals (REMs). They're a key material …
Kelly Dickerson
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The Trump transition team reportedly asked NASA about mining on the moon
There are a number of other resources on the moon, including rare earth metals, that could be of in…
Rafi Letzter
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Jeff Bezos is rooting for India's Chandrayaan 2 to reach the Moon safe and sound
And, he’s rooting for India to reach the Moon safe and sound. The three modules of Chandr…
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A new climate solution involves shooting moon dust into space to create a 'solar shield' around Earth, but scientists say it's a risky last resort
A moon-dust shield is the latest in a series of risky, last-resort geoengineering proposals to shie…
Matthew Loh
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ISRO to step on unexplored side of the moon to harness trillion dollars’ worth of nuclear energy
ISRO plans to reach the south side of the moon where no nation has gone before and a rover is expec…
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The race to the moon is heating up as lunar resources could top $1 quadrillion in value
The head of Russia's space agency said "the race for the development of the natural resources of th…
Filip De Mott
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China plans three missions to the Moon after discovering a new lunar mineral that may be a future energy source
The mineral, Changesite-(Y), was found in samples obtained by China's space exploration in 2020 and…
Jyoti Mann
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Gorgeous new map shows the surface of the moon in exquisite detail
Below is the latest map of the moon released April 13 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The equator ru…
Jessica Orwig
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's $30 billion Artemis missions will attempt to set up a moon base
Narrator: The mission was named in homage to Apollo's twin sister, Artemis, the Greek goddess of th…
David Anderson,Bob Hunt,Dave …
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The Moon might have a precious resource that could reduce NASA's Mars missions by $10 billion a year
Returning to the Moon has its benefits: Scientists suspect that the lunar poles could harbor frozen…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA says the discovery could support deep-space exploration efforts. It will share the findings in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…