The sustainability of the Artemis program, which aims to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, heavily relies on ...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough method to turn lunar and Martian sand into strong building materials. This innovation could revolutionize space exploration by allowing future colonies on the ...

On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

The amount of pore space in most unweathered granite is too small to support a plant-based ecosystem. But porosity grows as intact rock interacts with surface waters beneath the soil. You have ...

Remote handling of regolith will be an essential step in these activities, as it would first need to be collected from the Moon's surface. Beyond this, moon dust is not easy to work with.

A new simulation technology developed by the University of Bristol enables effective remote control of lunar robots for moon dust collection, supporting astronaut training and potentially reducing the ...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin discovered a way of binding regolith - surface rocks, sand and dust - together using low temperatures and minimal energy. The blocks, built with carbon ...

Among those samples were "regolith breccias," which form when moon dust—or regolith—is fused into rock by asteroid impacts. Once fused into a rock, these breccias preserve the geochemical ...

The three drillholes presented substantial hydrothermal alteration and local sulfidation within the breccia.

When spacecraft land, they tend to kick up lots of pesky dust that coats their navigation cameras. Spacecraft landing on dusty surfaces like of the moon and Mars tend to kick up powdery regolith ...

New research suggests that ancient Mars, despite its icy conditions, once had rivers, lakes, and even a vast ...

Terrain Minerals has delivered an exploration target of 25 to 33 million tonnes grading between 880 and 980ppm total rare ...