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 ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again become a ...

The next time astronauts land on the moon, we will watch it in high-definition. The transmission will be in color, digital ...

But regardless of when humans make it back to the moon, it turns out that lunar dust will be an even greater issue than it was thought to be during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early ...

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 ...

For example, creating an overly large buffer zone around equipment might be justified to mitigate potential damage from lunar dust. On top of that, Article XII of the Outer Space Treaty assumes that ...

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 facility in ...

An experiment last month was sent to the moon and showed success against a decades long problem of lunar dust. Buhler believes his world class knowldge of electrostatics has found a way to create a ...

China is taking lunar construction to the next level, with plans to 3D-print bricks from moon dust as early as 2028.

For years, scientists have been puzzled over how water can exist on the moon, which is a place with no atmosphere, no air, and bone-dry soil. With scorching sunlight during the day and freezing ...

The first samples of rock from the Moon brought back to Earth from a Chinese lunar mission in 2020 have arrived in the UK. What can it tell us?