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.

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,

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.

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, pitches for alternate paths to the lunar surface are ...