A Space Race-era study from the Air Force proposed establishing a Moon base by 1969 armed with a "Lunar Based Earth ...

China is seeking to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the base's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. A cargo ...

They will have to build with unfamiliar building materials, in an unfamiliar environment, for people who move in unfamiliar ways. Moon bases will also have to protect astronauts. The moon is ...

Proposed construction approach for the Lunar Crater ... the initial focus is on setting up a robotic lunar base, which would be used for research on In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) and ...

With funding from the Italian Space Agency, the GLAMS project is advancing lunar habitations with 3D printed regolith structures.

China wants to begin building a base on the moon with the help of lunar soil within five years, Chinese media reported. The news comes just months after NASA administrator Bill Nelson warned that ...

While the lunar base will help with exploration, it will also serve as a strategic step towards expanding China’s influence in space, making it a key player in a new wave of extraterrestrial ...

and getting building materials there in the first place is a costly procedure. Constructing the base out of the Moon itself could be a solution to those problems, scientists from a university in ...

A cargo rocket carrying brick samples blasted off late Friday for the Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon by 2030 and build a permanent base there by 2035.