South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years. At a public meeting held at the ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing ...

Chinese researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for fuel.

Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the moon. In a study published in the journal Joule, ...

Exploring the late philosopher Bruno Latour’s concept of ‘landing’, a group show in Bangkok explores cross-border journeys, from land to the lunar ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

Designed to operate autonomously on the moon in unmanned, vacuum and low-gravity conditions, the equipment uses lunar soil as the sole raw material.

Donghua University in Shanghai has unveiled what is believed to be the world's first piece of equipment capable of converting lunar soil into high-performance fiber materials in a vacuum ...

Inside Europe’s simulated lunar surface: preparing for the moon in Cologne Cologne – At the edge of Cologne, Germany, a large industrial building contains something extraordinary: the most ...