Moon base

Supplied by regular SpaceX's Starship flights, Moon Base Alpha has grown into a large human colony - a closeup from the Lunar colony render in Elon Musk's recent Starship update presentation.

In Andy Weir's new sci-fi novel "Artemis," space tourists pay $70,000 for a two-week lunar vacation — a calculation he made based on real-world economics.

But the company is still focused on Mars.

A diorama of a moon base

On July 7, NASA awarded a $1.24 million grant to San Antonio’s WEX Foundation to implement an education program where underserved students build technology useful for human colonization on the moon. The WEX Foundation partnered with the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Pre-freshman Engineering Program (SA PREP) to create Lunar Caves Analog Test Sites (LCATS) which […]

digital artist evgeny kazantsev foresees the synthesis of the future with real world locations and objects of our time.

the european space agency (ESA) has found a way to extract oxygen from moondust, enabling astronauts to manufacture their own breathable air on the moon.

Foster + Partners is designing a base for the Moon. We speak to architect Xavier de Kestelier about ambitious projects, virtual reality and laser-wielding robots