With private companies setting their sights on exploring our solar system, international space law experts (yep – that’s a thing…) say we need to be careful not to exploit the moon. If you’re wondering ‘what the heck’, they’re talking about sending human ashes, launching advertising, and building religious monuments there. Cue talk about the need to set some moon-surface rules in place before corporations get all starry-eyed… “We need to be careful we’re not contaminating it – not just with biological and chemical contamination, but with litter,” attorney Leslie Tennen says. And new NASA research shows there are more ‘moonquakes’ on the surface than scientists had thought, raising questions over plans for future human outposts. “The moon is not this benign place where nothing is happening,” said researcher Tom Watters.