The moon is about 238,000 miles from Earth, while Mars is on average about 140 million miles away. Advertisement First, that would require a base for operations on the moon.

After spending five years in semi-stealth mode, the Open Lunar Foundation is talking about its plan to create a settlement on the moon at a cost in the range of $5 billion.

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon lander Vikram and robotic rover Pragyan have now been told to go to sleep. ISRO hopes to awaken them at lunar dawn on 22 September. But in ...