The moon is pretty inhospitable to humans, but recent research has found that it's surprisingly possible for breathable air to eventually exist on its surface.

Last year, Sean Duffy, who served as the acting administrator of NASA from July to December 2025, had announced NASA’s the plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, which will power a proposed space station and a lunar colony under the Artemis II and Artemis III missions.

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

For decades, the Moon was treated as a dead end, a place where flags and footprints marked the limits of human reach. Now scientists and mission planners are recasting it as a working outpost, a place to mine water,

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But underlying that drumbeat is a quagmire of epic proportions.

NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key building block in the push to make long-term human habitation on other planets possible.