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13 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 14, 2026.
A new feasibility study in Frontiers in Space Technologies finds power is easy at the lunar poles and water is the wall. A village of 1,000 could last for centuries; the 'self-growing cities' pitched by Musk and Bezos could not.
WatchThe executive order, signed at Johnson Space Center, would build a fourth service academy for the Space Force, NASA and the commercial launch industry. Ted Cruz is already lobbying to put it in Texas.
Ice-rich lunar soil carries seismic waves two to three times faster than dry soil, a University of Maryland-led team reports. China's Chang'e-7 lands a seismometer near Shackleton Crater later this year, and it can test the idea.
Artemis III has been rewritten as a dress rehearsal: three rockets launching in quick succession in 2027, two prototype landers, and a crew that stays in Earth orbit the whole time.
From compact power for the Moon's shadowed craters to systems for servicing spacecraft in orbit, the agency is pairing its labs and expertise with private industry in a $60 million-plus collaboration.
Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines will fly four robotic missions in late 2028, each carrying the same trio of instruments to scout dust, radiation and navigation for a permanent human outpost.
Veteran spacefarers Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and rookie Andre Douglas will fly the mission, targeted for as soon as late 2027, that aims to land humans near the lunar south pole.
JPL says its High-Performance Spaceflight Computing processor, built jointly with Microchip Technology, has cleared early radiation testing well beyond its 100x design target and is on track to fly on Artemis lunar missions and Mars Sample Return.
Former Apollo astronaut Fred Haise expresses happiness about passing on his long-standing record to the next generation of lunar explorers.
Astronaut shares details about what it was really like to fly and land in NASA's next-generation crew vehicle.
After a successful flight around the moon, astronauts will rely on a flawed heat shield to protect them during atmospheric reentry.
The lunar mission has elicited deep feelings among Americans, particularly in Houston where mission control coordinates the historic return to the Moon.
NASA's most ambitious mission since Apollo carries crew farther from Earth than any humans in over 50 years.