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 ...

including the Moon Agreement of 1979, have failed to garner international consensus, with neither the US, Russia or China signing it. 'A space Wild West is coming into existence,' British ...

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 ...

Specialists fear planned commercial flights could compromise lunar heritage, including Neil Armstrong’s bootprints.

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” ...