The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the surface before returning to Earth. Since then only unmanned ...

A businessman has revealed plans to colonise the Moon by 2063 and transform humanity into a "multi-planet species".

SpaceX plans to conduct the sixth test flight of the Starship rocket on November 18th. The previous fifth test, which took ...

The longer-term plan is to establish lunar colonies that could allow astronauts to live on the moon for longer. Colonizing the moon means bringing the infrastructure for day-to-day life.

NASA has asked companies to design plans for reactors that could be set up on the moon, giving a glimpse of a future where a permanent lunar base is powered by nuclear fuel. NASA aims to send ...