NASA Says Moon May Have More Water than the Great Lakes

The U.S. Great Lakes have some competition. The moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. Water bottling companies and thirsty-but-dry states are already scurrying to find ways of bringing the H2O back to Earth. Think of [...]

Japan plans $2 billion robot moon base by 2020

We got starry-eyed last month about Japanese plans to send humanoid robots to the moon, but now we’re, well, over the moon to see that the Japanese want to build a whole robot base on the heavenly body by 2020.

A Japanese government panel has produced a draft paper outlining how humanoid rover robots will begin [...]