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Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Three companies will send scientific payloads to the lunar surface to support NASA's first permanent base development.

NASA is working to send a small fleet of robotic landers to the surface of the moon in the next few years in an effort to test out new technology and take the first steps toward e ...

NASA formally announced its Moon Base back in March 2026 and has been working on several projects simultaneously to further the objective of putting people on the moon in a more permanent capacity. ...

Could the moon become humanity's next home? NASA has a detailed plan to build a first-of-its kind lunar outpost where ...

NASA has unveiled its ambitious plan to build the first permanent human base on the Moon’s South Pole. The project will ...

NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to NASA program manager Carlos García-Galán about the moon base initiative and the agency's ...

The contracts ​for Firefly and Intuitive ‌Machines ⁠each involve sending another one of their landers to ​the moon.

NewsNation will stream the announcements from this story at 2:30 p.m. ET/1:30 C. The moon base is a core part of the Artemis program, which aims not only to return humans to the moon but to establish ...