Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that can be compacted down to form bricks to construct lunar shelters, or ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

"This approach allows us to utilize resources found on the moon, free from transporting water and other materials from the ...

China's timeline to build an outpost on the moon's south pole coincides with NASA's more ambitious and advanced Artemis programme, which aims to put U.S. astronauts back on the lunar surface in ...

Lunar experts at APL have developed a new resource to guide technology developers who are creating systems designed to ...

To do so, astronauts would swap the glass made on Earth with that made from lunar regolith, or the loose, rocky surface that is found on the Moon. That would allow them to reduce the mass of a ...

SHANGHAI - Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) include building a nuclear reactor on the moon's surface, a presentation by a Chinese space ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, ...

That the water content within the lunar far and near sides differs seems “coincidentally consistent” with the variations in the surface features of the moon’s two hemispheres, said Sen Hu ...

Still, Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus is confident about future missions. "Lunar surface delivery and data relay satellites are central to our strategy to commercialize the Moon," Altemus said.