Since it first landed in 2018, China's Chang'e-4 — the first spacecraft to ever land on the far side of the moon — has been taking stunning panoramas of impact craters and sampling minerals from the ...
The Moon has always held a certain mystery, especially its far side, hidden from Earth’s view. While telescopes and astronauts have revealed much about its surface, recent research has uncovered ...
Establishing permanent settlements on the harsh moon comes with enumerable engineering challenges. Building on the moon is complicated by its dramatic temperature fluctuations (from -387 degrees ...
California company Skyeports creates self-healing glass spheres from Moon regolith that generate solar power and support ...
The European Space Agency is 3D-printing bricks made with the dust from a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. Lego bricks have been fodder for a number of unexpected projects over the years, from making ...
While the moon is a dead rock floating in space, there is much more that's interesting, at least to researchers, than meets the eye. At first glance, the Earth's closest neighbor may seem boring, but ...
By combining robotics with 3D printing, a spider-like, semi-autonomous prototype robot called Charlotte could revolutionize ...
Fig. 3. Lunar volcanic landforms. (A) Floor-fractured crater (44.3°E, 46.5°N), LRO WAC mosaic. (B) Lava flows in the southwestern Imbrium (330.4°E, 25.5°N), Apollo photograph AS15-M-1701. (C) Sinuous ...
The structure that will fly the first woman and next man to land on the Moon and return on the Artemis III mission by 2024 arrived at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, from its Thales ...