Lately, there's been plenty of progress in 3D printing objects from the lunar regolith. We've reported on several projects ...

The case for having a permanent base on the moon as a staging point for space exploration has been made many times over the years. Actually constructing a real lunar facility presents numerous ...

Therefore there's a cottage industry, spearheaded by NASA's Simulant Development Laboratory, which creates different types of simulated lunar regolith. (Regolith is the technical term for the material ...

When NASA astronauts return to the moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture farther into the solar system, they ...

It’s a crisp January night at the Heep Center, but graduate student Jess Atkin doesn’t mind. Making her way through the ...

And now, a new study based on lunar regolith simulant experiments suggests that if these moon-dust bricks crack, bacteria could be used to seal them back up. Using as many local lunar resources as ...

NASA researchers at Huntsville are conducting research to ensure that landings on potentially unstable lunar surface proceed ...

In fact, the researchers say, replacing terrestrial glass with glass made on the moon and from the loose regolith readily available on the lunar surface could slash the transport costs of setting ...

That’s not something you plan for. It took the team more than five weeks to load the regolith simulant into the new lunar facility. Ultimately, the only way we could figure out how to move 900 ...

The solar cells used in space now are amazing, reaching efficiencies of 30% to even 40%, but that efficiency comes with a price,” said Felix Lang, senior author at the University of Potsdam, Germany, ...