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 ...

A small fraction of the very first sample of dust collected on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew just sold at auction, piquing the interest of astronomers and space lawyers alike. On the precipice of ...

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 ...

Lunar dust, known as regolith, will be very hard to keep out of the system. Lunar dust covers the entire surface of the Moon, with about 20% of the bulk regolith composed of particles smaller than ...

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

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 ...

Amrita Singh is studying lunar dust to answer important health and technology questions for future Moon missions. The gray, crushed rock material that coats the surface of the Moon is officially ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists are studying rocks brought back from the moon for a glimpse into the vast resources that could be mined ...

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?