Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

For humans to live, work, and conduct various activities on the moon, strategies are needed to deal with all the hazards—not the least of which is the lunar regolith (or "moondust"). As the ...

One dust-cloud solution that the researchers examined would involve delivering moondust to a way station. It would be situated at a special orbital location called the Lagrange L1 point ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has been awarded $35 million in funding from NASA to improve the company’s commercial solution that produces silicon from lunar regolith. The US spatial agency’s ...

Unlike soil on Earth, lunar regolith, or rock and dust, lacks the necessary nutrients and structural integrity to support any growing flora. Not only that, said Atkin, moondust is chockfull of heavy ...

I'm talking about something that is essentially a machine designed to extract oxygen from moondust (they call it lunar regolith). Oxygen is one of the most valuable resources in space exploration ...

Here’s how it works. NASA has requested the safe return of moondust and cockroach samples that were scheduled to be sold in a private auction that ended June 23. In a letter dated June 15 ...

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