A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The project takes place within a giant vacuum sphere, pushing the limits of ...

When Blue Ghost reaches the lunar surface, it will boot up 10 NASA science experiments that will conduct studies on lunar regolith (moon dust), the radiation environment on the moon, and the ...

MIT and Shaan Jagani Palak Patel has been working on ways to extract oxygen and metal from lunar dust Obviously the more resources that can be made on the moon the better. Sierra Space’s system ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 25, 2025, the moon is 26 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 15% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Can a future base on the Moon being constructed using only lunar resources like lunar regolith? This is what a recent review paper published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences hopes to address as a ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon ... regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with ...