US President Donald Trump posted "The Moon Is Ours" on Sept 6 on Truth Social, but international space law under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty strictly prohibits any country from claiming celestial bodies as national territory. However, while claiming the Moon itself is illegal, existing treaties leave a major legal gray area around space mining—raising fierce debate over whether nations and private companies can legally extract and profit from lunar water, ice, and rare minerals.

What does international law actually say about lunar sovereignty, and who gets to keep what is mined from the Moon?

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