Jupiter moon may have huge, jagged ice blades that complicate the search for alien life | Innovation
Equatorial regions of the potentially life-supporting Europa, which harbors a huge ocean of salty liquid water beneath its icy shell, are probably…
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SpaceX’s First Tourist Isn’t Worried About Training for His Trip to the Moon | Virtual Reality
Moon Tourist
The Securities and Exchange Commission might not be convinced that Elon Musk always tells the truth, but that isn’t stopping Yusaku…
Researchers Think They’ve Discovered the First Moon Outside Our Solar System | Tech Top
Many Moons
Moons are everywhere in our solar system — we have one, Mars has two, Jupiter and Saturn have dozens each — but we’ve never known…
Lockheed Martin’s Giant Moon Lander Is an Absolute Unit | Tech Top
XXL LANDER
The Apollo Lunar Module weighed less than 11,000 pounds and was just 22 feet tall, even with its legs extended. And that’s after years…
A Nonprofit Plans to Store Human Knowledge in DNA and Store It on the Moon | Tech Top
MOON UNIT
Imagine, for a second, that human life has been snuffed out like the flame of a candle. Wouldn’t it be nice if we’d archived the sum of…
Lunar robotics company Ispace has scheduled its first two missions to the moon | Feature Tech
Japanese firm Ispace, which specializes in robotics and intends to become one of the first lunar delivery companies, has announced its first two…
SpaceX says Japanese billionaire will be first passenger on moon flight | Innovation
In a live event held at SpaceX headquarters in California, Elon Musk said tonight that the billionaire founder of Japanese fashion retailer Zozo…
Why NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon | Innovation
Main image: Artist’s concept of new fission power system on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA Everyone’s talking about the Moon. It’ll be 50 years this…
On This Day in Space! Sept. 3, 2006: SMART-1 Spacecraft Crashes Into the Moon | Innovation
Welcome to “On This Day … in Space!” where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast…
The Code for the Moon Landings was Released and It’s Surprisingly Hilarious | Tips & Tricks
When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the…