During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the United States quietly explored plans for permanent moon bases, military outposts, and even detonating a nuclear device on the lunar surface.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, signed a deal with aerospace manufacturer Lavochkin Association to construct the ...

In his first bold policy stroke as NASA’s interim head, Sean Duffy has directed the agency to put a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by decade’s end. This is not a lark. If humanity means to ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA ...