Newly Discovered Moon Caves Could One Day House Astronauts

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.

Their existence had been disputed for decades, but now we can finally we can say for sure: There are caves beneath the surface of the moon. This week, an international research team led by the University of Trento in Italy published a study in Nature Astronomy showing evidence of accessible areas beneath the lunar surface. The discovery could be crucial for the construction of future colonies on the moon.

For more than half a century, astronomers have been theorizing about the existence of a network of caves and tunnels beneath the moon’s surface. In 2009, a team of

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