China’s latest lunar mission has quietly redrawn the map of space power. By bringing home the first rocks ever collected from ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the lunar surface.

Scientists believe that the moon contains heavy rare earth minerals—of the kind needed for the development of advanced military technology such as the F-35 fighter jet. Like staking out all the water ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth. In the lobby of Interlune, a 3-foot-wide tabletop diorama shows an idyllic, ...

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The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...

While NASA maintains the lead in human space exploration, other nations have already begun their own projects. Take the China National Space Agency, for example, with their CLEP, or Chinese Lunar ...