The moon Agreement, which was created in 1979 and has 17 parties including France, Australia and India, goes a bit further on resources, stating that "neither the surface nor the subsurface of the ...

Earlier, Reuters reported that the US administration was preparing a project of a new international agreement on resource mining on the moon, planning to involve a number of partner states MOSCOW ...

Laws are also in place to ensure countries don’t pollute bodies such as the Moon while they are exploring them. The basic tenets of international space law are laid out in ten treaties and “soft law” ...

The agreement comes as ispace prepares for the ... That mission, ispace's first attempt at landing on the moon, ended in a crash due to a fault in the lander's an altitude sensor.