WASHINGTON – NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the US space agency… ...

NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space ...

How much is a moon rock worth? According to new contracts inked between NASA and four startups, it’s somewhere between $1 and $15,000. NASA pledged in September to buy moon rocks from companies ...

Five years ago, Rosen answered an advertisement in USA Today placed by two men seeking to buy moon rocks for $5 million. He agreed to meet the men, Tony Coriasso and John Marta, at a Miami Beach ...

This offer is out of this world. An Austrian museum is offering people who donate to its crowd-funding project a chance to “own” a chunk of the moon. The Natural History Museum in Vienna doesn ...

Three tiny Moon rocks brought back from space by the Soviet Luna-16 mission are expected to sell for more than $1 million when they go up for auction later this week.

NASA is putting out a call to companies, tasking them with bagging lunar samples in exchange for funds. If a private company can prove that it has gathered Moon rocks on the lunar surface, NASA ...

NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space ...

NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space ...

On Mars, humans will have to use materials that are already there, NASA says. So the space agency wants to practice on the moon to figure out the details.