The dust under a moonwalker’s boots looks harmless from a distance. Up close, it is anything but. Lunar regolith, the blanket ...

A new race to the moon is emerging between the United States and China. Unlike fifty years ago, the goal is no longer just ...

The lunar South Pole represents both humanity’s next great adventure and one of its toughest environmental challenges. NASA has pinpointed this region for the upcoming Moon Base, drawn by its ...

A gray powder that looks like ash can become something closer to stone when hit with the right beam of light. Engineers have shown that simulated lunar soil can be melted and layered into solid shapes ...

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...

Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to everything from solar panels to the inside of human ...

Due to the unique conditions of the space environment and abundant resources, the field investigation and study of the Moon, Earth’s sole natural satellite, represent a crucial milestone in China’s ...

A crater that never sees sunlight might sound like the wrong place to build delicate scientific equipment. Jun Ye sees it ...

There’s a new space race to the Moon, and this time the ambitions are not just to visit but to stay. NASA’s Artemis program aims to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar surface in the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — NASA announced that it will be sending instruments built by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder to the moon, according ...