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 ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Sierra Space's experiment at NASA's Johnson Space Center aims to extract oxygen from lunar regolith, a key step for future lunar bases.

Establishing a permanent presence on the Moon is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. The Artemis program, ...

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in ...

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 ...

Once on the lunar surface, a suite of other equipment will continue Blue Ghost's mission with analyses of regolith, heat flow and electrical conductivity under the moon's surface, as well as testing ...

RAC is Aegis’ first payload to the moon’s surface, and it will operate for 14 days. For Stephanie Murphy, who took over the ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2024, 6th-grade students at Bessemer Middle School went above and beyond in a space-based challenge, leading ...

NASA's new technology, the Electrodynamic Dust Shield, is set to transform how we manage lunar dust, using electrical forces to keep Moon-bound spacecraft and equipment clean. This innovation is criti ...

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed ...