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NASA and its partners are already building the rockets and habitat, navigation, and communication systems that will let people live in lunar colonies indefinitely

Space agencies and private companies are working on rockets, landers, and other tech for lunar settlement

NASA’s Orion and Gateway will try out optical communications gear for a high-speed connection to Earth

Astrobotic’s autonomous navigation will help lunar landers, rovers, and drones find their way on the moon

Astronomers need a quiet place to observe the cosmic dawn

Here’s how lunar explorers will mine the regolith to make rocket fuel

In a cavernous building in Washington state, Blue Origin workers are constructing New Glenn’s BE-4 engine

NASA’s orbiting Lunar Gateway is either essential for a moon landing or a boondoggle in the making

NASA and the European Space Agency’s plans for moon colonies call for advanced life-support systems and shielding from cosmic rays

Six years into an ambitious 10-year research project, experts weigh in on whether the Graphene Flagship can help the “wonder material” make it through the Valley of Death

A 49-core chip by Georgia Tech uses a 1980s-era algorithm to solve some of today’s toughest optimization problems faster than a GPU

The N3 program aims to develop wearable devices that let soldiers to communicate directly with machines.

An Australian research team is using tech to monitor global climate change’s assault on the world’s largest living organism

A look at current plans to return to the moon…and stay there

Yotta, yotta, yotta—that’s the Greek prefix we’ll soon need to describe the vastness of our data archives—yotta, yotta, yotta

AI, 5G, and the IoT will allow factories to produce new goods on the fly

A synthesizer that defined the sound of a generation

The space agency has long relied on kid-friendly mascots to make the case for space

Lauren Race has refined circuit symbols for use in tactile diagrams

Celebrate the first moon landing with a GPS clock that uses Apollo-era panel meters

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