A future Moon base is closer to reality than ever before. With missions like Artemis 3 planned for 2026 and a lunar outpost ...

Melting moon dust, found at the bottom of astronaut's shoes, would save on costly, heavy transport of solar cells in space.

Scientists have created solar cells using simulated Moon dust, potentially solving one of space exploration's biggest ...

Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce launch costs and make lunar bases more plausible, according to a new ...

Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

It’s hitching a ride to the moon on Thursday to find out whether robots could someday repair spaceships like the one carrying it.

With US astronauts scheduled to return to the Moon in 2026, it might be nice for them to really and truly know ahead of time what the gravity situation is going to be like. At 1/6th Earth’s ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission flew by Mars and its lesser-known moon Deimos on March 12, 2025, for a critical gravity assist for its journey.

Future moon dwellers are to use the water ice on the moon. A British company has developed a system for processing it.

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers ...