A breakthrough in lunar resource extraction has been made by a team of scientists from China, who have developed a method to ...

This technology could open doors into the avenues of space exploration as it could help turn the Moon into an outpost for ...

A new solar-powered tech extracts water from Moon soil and turns astronaut CO₂ into oxygen and fuel. Scientists have created a new technology that could significantly improve the chances of long-term ...

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.

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

Lunar dust is sharp and abrasive. Taming it will enable massive lunar bases, and could teach engineers how to build a better ...

T he race for the Moon is on. Nobody is really sure exactly what resources are located on the Moon, or how vast they are, but a growing number of companies believe the Moon could hold large ...

How will future missions to the Moon help extract valuable resources that can be used for scientific research or lunar settlement infrastructure? This is what a recent study being presented this week ...

We can either bring them with us from Earth – an expensive proposition – or we’ll need to take advantage of resources on the Moon itself. And that’s where the idea of “ in-situ resource ...

Either approach complicates the resource extraction process. The large distance from the Earth and poor accessibility of asteroids versus the Moon, works against resource extraction and processing.

The soil on the Moon could support life, scientists say. That is thanks to a breakthrough new technology that could allow ...