A new race to the moon is emerging between the United States and China. Unlike fifty years ago, the goal is no longer just ...

China has sent experimental fibers made from lunar soil to its space station for ...

The "soil" blanketing the moon's surface isn't actually soil. It's a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and ...

The material was discovered during a research project at NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland.

Outer space is an inhospitable frontier. Astronauts are not only cut off from gravity but also from all the resources ancient explorers took for granted, especially oxygen. Sure, you can grow fruit in ...

Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the Moon. In a study publishing July 16 in the Cell Press journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it ...

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully grown plants using soil from the moon. The experiment is more than 50 years in the making, as the soil was taken by Apollo 11′s Neil Armstrong, ...

China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left ...