The same company that is 3D-printing Army barracks at Fort Bliss, Texas has now signed a $57.2 million contract with NASA to develop technologies for building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the ...

“We talk about having a sustained human presence and a robust lunar economy,” said Corky Clinton, senior adviser at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Science and Technology Office. Those are the ...

Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to ...

A gray powder that looks like ash can become something closer to stone when hit with the right beam of light. Engineers have shown that simulated lunar soil can be melted and layered into solid shapes ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --A Texas-based company has landed a five-year contract from NASA to build landing pads, roads and shelter on the moon and on Mars. ICON, which is known for its 3D-printed homes and ...

image: The University of Texas at El Paso has joined a project led by NASA to leverage 3D-printing processes with the aim of manufacturing rechargeable batteries using lunar and Martian regolith. view ...

Chinese scientists discuss the best method for building a moon base at the first-ever Extraterrestrial Construction Conference. Topics ranged from how to build basic infrastructure on the surface of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Foster + Partners If all goes to plan, by 2040 people may be living on the moon in houses made—essentially—from mushrooms.

One of America's most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, Lesley Stahl has been a "60 Minutes" correspondent since 1991. A young CEO who started a 3D-printing business to create what he ...