When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or-break. Phil Metzger is studying how to mitigate its dangers and use it as ...

NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith ...

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar ...

While there are many methods for processing regolith, most involve heating the lunar soil up to 1,600 degrees Celsius, using electrolysis, or both. The study took particular interest in molten ...

Blue Ghost will also measure regolith, which is the loose dirt and sediment that often settles on airless planetary bodies like the moon. The regolith research will aid in dust mitigation on ...

Team Abstract: Team LunaREX's objective is to build a mechanically functional stationary robot capable of digging lunar regolith. Inspired by the NASA RASSOR, the LunaREX digger utilizes a rotating ...

Artistic rendering of Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander on the surface of the Moon.

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

According to Ryan Watkins, program scientist with Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office at NASA headquarters, ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission achieved a historic soft landing on the Moon's South Pole on August 23, 2023. ISRO's study ...

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 ...

Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began. The box-like machine was now ingesting small quantities of a dusty regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with a chemical composition ...