The system’s ability to excavate large quantities of regolith ... rotating bucket drums and arms to collect and transport lunar soil. IPEx will also use advanced algorithms to improve its ...

Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil. That's what researchers at the Indian Institute ...

China is getting ready to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar soil, in what could be a huge step toward building a base on the lunar surface. The Chang'e 8 spacecraft is currently scheduled to ...

BEIJING--Chinese scientists have discovered a “brand-new method” of producing large quantities of water using lunar soil brought back from a 2020 expedition, state broadcaster CCTV reported on ...

The team made “moonglass” by melting simulated lunar soil in a furnace; on the Moon, this would be done using concentrated sunlight. The researchers then added a thin layer of crystals called ...

Researchers at IISc have developed an innovative bacteria-based technique to repair cracks in bricks made from lunar soil simulants. Using the bacterium 'Sporosarcina pasteurii', they successfully ...

Lunar Resources recently announced that the test, drawing oxygen from moon-like soil in a vacuum chamber, was completed in December with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company’s ...

In June last year, China's lunar lander Chang'e 6 became the first in the world to bring back soil samples from the far side of the moon. Chinese researchers confirmed that the soil on the far ...