Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just beamed home up-close video of its epic March 2 touchdown, showing how its thrusters kicked up plumes of lunar dust. Skip to main content Open menu ...

Now, three astrophysicists have proposed a plan to create a moon dust shield by mining and shooting bits of moon dust into space. The plan might sound a bit out of this world — sorry for that ...

Lunar dust is a fine, glassy material that can be several inches thick on the surface of the Moon and is abrasive and ... hopes to design innovative micro-/nano-hierarchical core-shell textures ...

The UD experiment is part of the Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) payload set to determine how moon dust particles stick to different materials exposed to the moon’s environment. These ...

Lunar dust is a fine, glassy material that can be several inches thick on the surface of the Moon. The dust is known ... and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Engineers and space scientists calculated the energy needed to convert moon dust into rocket fuel and transport it to a space-based location. The process ...

It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet below the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust - a ...

But what if you could print with something you can already find on the moon? Like moon dust. NASA thinks it is possible and has been doing tests on doing just that. Now [Virtual Foundry] wants to ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander has given us an amazing ... with the plumes vigorously kicking up the lunar dust, soil and rocks — collectively known as regolith," they added.