“You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains,” said professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein.

Christina Guidi of The Aerospace Corporation discusses what it would take to build structures and infrastructure that could help a lunar economy lift off.

CisLunar is studying how to turn space debris into fuel for electric propulsion systems, among other things.

“The government's been encouraging companies that help provide the public services in space to also develop commercial customers on the side,” said Harvard’s Matt Weinzierl.

And this it’s private companies that are racing to get to the moon first.

This week in Spain, European research ministers are discussing how to allocate as much as $14 billion over three years to the European Space Agency.

Sci-fi writer Andy Weir predicts the future of space travel using today's air travel data.

Scientists from NASA and MIT have developed a way to create a wi-fi hotspot on the moon.