The mission started on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which brought the Blue Ghost lunar lander up into space and pushed it ...

After grinding and zapping the dust with lasers, Professor Anand's team hopes to answer fundamental questions about how the Moon formed and about the early years of planet Earth. Inside the grains ...

The first samples of Moon rock brought back to Earth in nearly 50 years have arrived in the UK - on loan from China. The tiny grains of dust are now locked inside a safe in a high security ...

Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity's push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of ...

Humans' future on the Moon is multifaceted, and some of those facets are less glamorous than others. Although NASA's biggest Artemis conferences tend to focus on the flashy parts of the program ...

Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, withstand radiation damage, and mitigate the need for transporting heavy ...

Future lunar bases could be powered by solar cells made on-site from melted moon dust. Building items on the moon, using materials that are already there, would be more practical than shipping ...

A new approach has now shown how to make solar cells out of moon dust. Later this decade, the US space agency’s Artemis III mission plans to return astronauts to the moon for the first time in more ...

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s ...

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little different than the stuff that collects on our bookshelves. Every time an ...

What we’ve got is a really beautiful, aesthetic image showing some really unusual features,” said Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration at NASA, science mission directorate. This ...

It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet below the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust - a ...