The substances could help supply a lunar base ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new radar instrument designed to measure nearby dust and debris could make spacecraft landings ...

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little different than the stuff that collects on our bookshelves. Every time an ...

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

Lunar dust is one of the major problems that future Moon missions will face. The result of billions of years of micrometeorite impacts on the lunar surface and lack of water on the Moon has left this ...

As NASA continues to work to get back to the moon, everything must be built to specifications. Even the dust. Tucson-based General Plasma Inc. recently received a contract from New York-based Honeybee ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Understand why the Moon sometimes looks orange, what it means, and how often it happens. Learn the simple science behind the orange Moon, including sunsets, dust, smoke, and eclipses perfect for ...

Future lunar bases could be powered by solar cells made on-site from melted moon dust. Building items on the moon, using materials that are already there, would be more practical than shipping them ...

The Apollo Moon landings are among the most dissected events in history, yet some of their strangest details still hide in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours simulated lunar dust into a bed tray for testing hardware ...