As NASA and its suppliers plan moon habitats, including patenting activity for erecting a 3D printer on the moon and using lunar regolith as a building material, a fundamental question looms: why live ...

Moon mining could become a multibillion-dollar industry. The moon holds resources like rare earth elements, water ice, and helium-3. But astronomists say large-scale lunar mining could be bad news for ...

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...

The Moon is shifting from a distant backdrop to a contested frontier, as governments and companies race to turn its ice, ...

SpaceX's Starship hasn't totally stuck the landing yet, and the space industry is watching closely. That's because Starship is key to opening the moon for business. Companies need the rocket's heft ...

While private companies try to get space tourism off the ground, another lunar endeavor is now in the offing: moon mining. Interlune, a startup founded by two former Blue Origin employees, wants to ...

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The next race in space will be a contest to see who can get to the Moon with the right equipment, find the right resources and remove them in a way that allows someone to make enough profit to go back ...

Europe could one day start mining in space. In September 2025, the European Commission released its annual Foresight Report, highlighting, among other points, how growing competition for critical raw ...