NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project has completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the moon. The CaRD team performed integrated ...

As lunar missions ramp up with the goal of establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon, scientists are facing an ...

As Apollo astronauts trundled and trod awkwardly across the desolate lunar landscape, an insidious menace scuffed up their spacesuits. Moondust. Fine as talcum powder, sharp as glass and seemingly ...

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Additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D-printing (3DP) approaches have recently been considered as promising means to enable prolonged off-world activities through utilization of native planetary regoliths ...

The NASA OSIRIS-REx mission ran into a surprising discovery when it visited asteroid Bennu in late 2018. Mission planners believed the asteroid's surface would have been abundant in fine sand and ...

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An illustration of a notional commercial lander. NASA awarded more than $250 million to three companies May 31 to land NASA payloads on the moon by the summer of 2021. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Orbit ...

But to get there, scientists will first need to understand lunar regolith, Kristen John, principal investigator of NASA's Hermes Facility, said in a video recently published to NASA's Johnson Space ...