A breakthrough in lunar resource extraction has been made by a team of scientists from China, who have developed a method to ...

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing ...

Chinese researchers say they have devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel. As detailed in ...

Lunar dust is sharp and abrasive. Taming it will enable massive lunar bases, and could teach engineers how to build a better ...

In a laboratory at a university in Abu Dhabi a team of researchers have been working on something groundbreaking – bringing a ...

British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base.

So, instead, researchers from the University of Waterloo's Laboratory for Emerging Energy Research (LEER) suggest lunar regolith — the moon's top layer of soil and dust — is a locally ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. 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 ...

The moon holds resources like rare earth elements, water ice, and helium-3. But astronomists say large-scale lunar mining could be bad news for scientific research.

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, ...

Celestial bodies like the moon contain valuable resources, such as lunar regolith — also known as moon dust — and helium-3. These resources could serve a range of applications, including ...