NASA has some really wild plans, and I mean that in the best way possible. Despite facing some massive delays for its upcoming Artemis missions, which will see humanity return to the Moon for the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed plans to construct the first lunar railway system, which will be designed to provide reliable, autonomous and efficient payload transport between ...

A durable, long-life robotic transport system will be critical to the daily operations of a sustainable lunar base in the 2030’s NASA plans to build a levitating robot train & railway on the moon ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Old technology, new applications. NASA looks to the tried and true locomotive for lunar solutions. After multiple delays, NASA announced they would return to the moon in 2026 with the ...

The closest thing I know to fairy dust is moon dust, and yesterday I got to hold a glass jar containing 0.3 grams of lunar soil retrieved by Apollo 17 astronauts and returned to Earth in 1972. It made ...

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar ...

Hands up those of you that thought we'd be living in a far more science fiction-like future by now. Yep, me too. Still, it seems like some futuristic ideas that could be ripped straight from the pages ...

NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration. When ...

NASA wants to build the first lunar railway system providing payload transport on the Moon. The autonomous railway system could be a vital part of building a sustainable lunar base in the 2030s. It is ...