On a cold January morning in 1848, James Marshall was busy building a lumber mill in northern California. to process timber ...

A rocket is scheduled to launch next year that will take along a robotic probe to orbit the moon. The probe is expected to provide details of how much water there is on the moon and where it is.

The question of the availability of water is a decisive factor in whether an occupied moon base can ever be realized. A ...

Planetary geologists like me are interested in data from Lunar Trailblazer, one of these two scouting missions. The data from this mission will help us understand how water forms and behaves on ...

Before Artemis II, NASA will send two missions to scout the surface of the lunar south pole for resources that could sustain ...

This rocket is to carry a spacecraft called Lunar Trailblazer, which is supposed to orbit the moon in search of water. Our friend Joe Palca has been talking for years with the scientist in charge ...