(Natural News) Even during the calmest and sunniest day, Earth is caught in the middle of the ceaseless solar wind from the sun. If it weren’t for our world’s atmosphere and electromagnetic field, that cosmic storm would be ravaging the face of the planet, an article in Alpha Galileo stated. The sun is constantly putting […]

(Natural News) A Japanese study reported that it found a mineral in a lunar meteorite that requires water in order to form. This discovery has led researchers to theorize that Earth’s satellite used to have liquid water, an article in Space.com states. Furthermore, the researchers believe the moon may contain underground pockets of water ice. […]

(Natural News) Now that NASA has finished testing its new nuclear reactor on the ground, it is aiming its sights a lot higher. The space agency is considering fitting the Kilopower system onto a moon-bound lander for its first flight test in the middle of the 2020s, an article in Space News states. In a recent press conference, […]

(Natural News) Before the moon, there was water on Earth. This was the conclusion a group of scientists arrived upon after they studied lunar rocks from all six of the Apollo missions and investigated volcanic rocks from the Earth’s oceans. The research team, led by Richard Greenwood of Open University, a distance learning and research university […]

(Natural News) As you read this, experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), other international space agencies, and even those in the private sector, are actively working on possible ways to get off the planet and possibly land on either Mars or the Moon. Mars in particular is quite interesting because, like Earth, […]

(Natural News) Humanity may not be living on the moon just yet, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t left a mark on its surface. Or marks, if you will – about 400,000 pounds of it. That number is the estimated, collective weight of all the human trash that’s accumulated on the face of Earth’s satellite. […]

(Natural News) In case you were wondering how far along current efforts are in bringing humans back to regions of space that are farther than low-Earth orbit, you’re in luck, as Lockheed Martin has recently issued a new update. It concerns the firm’s work in one of the major components of a spacecraft that will […]

(Natural News) Come 2018, Moon Express will launch its first mission to the Moon. Though originally slated for late 2017, Naveen Jain, Moon Express co-founder and chairman, told CNBC.com that the launch is “definitely” going to happen. Moreover, Jain has gone on to state that the first human colony will be on the Moon within […]

(Natural News) Breakthroughs in image scanning and material analysis could make lunar missions easier, if we are to take the latest information being released in Nature Geoscience into consideration. Researchers from Brown University are saying they have evidence that shows the moon’s mantle is water-rich, an assumption that was only heavily hinted at but never […]