When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Clues buried in Moon dust are helping scientists revisit one of the oldest questions: where did Earth’s water come from? For ...

The first material ever collected from the far side of the Moon could help settle a long-held lunar mystery. According to a Chinese Academy of Sciences analysis of Moon dust ferried to Earth by ...

The fix to this problem might come in the form of tools instead of changes to the spacesuit itself. Rubins said astronauts ...

Dust. In your home, it’s a hassle. On the moon, it can be downright hazardous. The weak gravity of the lunar surface makes it easy to kick moon dust up into floating clouds. Particles are clingy and ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...

Moon dust electronics explores how lunar regolith could be used to create and repair electronic circuits in space.

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...