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• Dear NASA, please put a particle collider on the Moon

  NASA's current mission, to boldly go where no PR campaign has on behalf of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is a noble one. Donald Trump ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Should the moon be privatized? The US says yes

  Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic ...

  • The Conversation

• Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos compete to help NASA return humans to the moon

  NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to help its Artemis project return humans to the ...

  • David Canellis

• 5 facts about the Apollo 13 movie — and how they actually happened in real life

  On April 17 of 1970, the World held its breath when astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, launched themselves ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Ingenuity saved Apollo 13 — it could save us from coronavirus as well

  In 1970, the world stopped to root for the Apollo 13 crew. Entire families bunched around the TV, as thousands of people ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Research: Moon colonies could be (partially) built with human urine

  Colonies on the Moon or Mars could, one day, be manufactured — in part — from using human urine. The waste we flush ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Trump calls dibs on outer space with his latest executive order

  Donald Trump's latest executive order comes straight out of science fiction: He's officially called dibs on outer space. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• If a Japanese billionaire farted in front of you, what would you say?

  This Japanese millionaire is in search of a girlfriend to accompany him on his trip to the moon. But applicants have one ...

  • Mix

• Scientists say Earth has two moons now

  Astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey yesterday announced they'd found a second natural satellite orbiting the Earth. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What if we fuck up the Moon too?

  US Vice President Mike Pence yesterday gave a speech at NASA's Langley research center in Virginia where he told employees ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 5 Moon myths and how to debunk them yourself

  This year’s first supermoon will potentially grace the sky on February 9. A supermoon is usually defined as the largest ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA wants the auto industry to build its next Moon rover

  NASA earlier this week released an official contract inquiry seeking help from the automobile industry in designing a new ...

  • Tristan Greene

• New bill could kill NASA’s Moon base plans

  The US House of Representatives recently proposed a bipartisan bill that would essentially tank NASA's plans to build a fully-functioning ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Barn owls reflect moonlight in order to stun their prey

  Ecosystems that are bathed in light during the day change profoundly at night. As the sun fades from the land, nocturnal ...

  • The Conversation

• Building a moon base is a huge task — but these tiny satellites will pave the way

  The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. ...

  • The Conversation

• [Best of 2019] What the moon's craters reveal about the Earth's history

  Most scientists believe the rate at which the moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites has remained constant for ...

  • The Conversation

• Moon rocks could help us resurrect extinct species???

  Life is the last thing you would associate with the eternally dark craters of the lunar poles. But these craters could hold ...

  • The Conversation

• Why migrating to another planet is a stupid and implausible idea

  Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, whose work detecting exoplanets recently earned him a share in the Nobel prize for physics, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Saturn declared most moonfluential planet after follower count reaches 82

  A team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science recently announced the discovery of 20 new planets surrounding ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA releases 3D Moon map for visual artists

  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling around the moon for almost a decade now. During this course, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Elon Musk's plan for sending people to Mars is probably a suicide mission

  Elon Musk is a Cancer. If he'd been born a week earlier, on June 21st instead of June 28th, he'd be a Gemini. And that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists came up with a reasonable plan to build an elevator to the Moon

  It's not quite a “Stairway to Heaven,” but scientists have come up with what appears to be a perfectly feasible plan ...

  • Tristan Greene

• India's Chandrayaan-2 rocket launch is a success (Update: now in lunar orbit)

  Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Chandrayaan-2 lunar probe with GSLV MK-III, India‘s most powerful ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The Moonprentice: Newt Gingrich wants 'reality show' contest with Musk and Bezos to colonize Luna

  A coalition including Michael Jackson's former publicist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and an Air Force general want ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

  An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the ...

  • The Conversation

• 3D printing with moondust could be the key to setting up a colony on the moon

  1The entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to build permanent bases on the moon, or ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's what we need to build our first moon base

  Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent ...

  • The Conversation

• Google used 107,000 solar panels to create a portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton

  To celebrate 50 years since NASA's moon landing mission, Google made a massive portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton ...

  • Mix

• Here's why animals behave strangely during lunar and solar eclipses

  For most animals, the structure of their day – and indeed their year – depends on the light-dark cycle. These regular ...

  • The Conversation

• Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

  Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching ...

  • The Conversation

• We can thank the Apollo moon missions for these widely used technologies

  NASA’s Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA is prepping a 2026 mission to Titan to find the origins of life

  NASA yesterday announced details about its next major mission called Dragonfly, which aims to take a trip to Titan, Saturn's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• New analysis of 'moonquakes' indicates the moon isn't dead

  We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity ...

  • The Conversation

• How did the moon end up where it is?

  Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's why the crashed Israeli moon mission was still a tremendous contribution to science

  It came so close. It even took a selfie. But with only a few kilometers left to descend, something went wrong and the spacecraft ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's why Israel's first moon landing ended in an awesome crash

  Israel's first attempt at landing an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon today ended in a hard landing after an engine failure ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How realistic are China’s plans to colonize the moon?

  The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. Last ...

  • The Conversation

• Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon

  It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Fascinating myths about the lunar eclipse from around the world

  Millions of people will have the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse – an event popularly known in the media as a “blood ...

  • The Conversation

• A cotton seed sprouted - and died - on China's Lunar Lander

  On Tuesday, Chinese media reported that one of the cotton seeds aboard the Chang’e 4 lunar lander sprouted, marking the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• China's moon landing could launch a new space race

  China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on January 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do ...

  • The Conversation

• Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• SpaceX is flying a Japanese billionaire to the moon in 2023

  Last week, SpaceX announced it had signed up its first passenger for a trip to the moon. It's now revealed who that is: Japanese ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal