Astronauts could build solar panels using the Moon to allow us to live in space, scientists have suggested. The new research would allow future explorers of space to build their own ways of ...

This is the promise of an international team of researchers, who say that fabricating solar panels directly on the moon, rather than shipping them from Earth, would be significantly more efficient ...

Lunar travel could be revolutionised by solar panels made from dust which covers the moon’s surface, scientists say. German researchers melted a synthetic version of the moon’s loose surface ...

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 ...

All this while still offering radiation shielding and mechanical durability comparable to conventional panels, they claim. Not bad for Moon dust. By heating a lunar regolith simulant to 1,550°C ...

TOKYO — A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday ... but landed the wrong way up, leaving its solar panels unable to see the sun. But with the dawn of the lunar day, it appears that ...

Astronauts could build solar panels using the Moon to allow us to live in space, scientists have suggested. The new research would allow future explorers of space to build their own ways of gathering ...