Moondust is definitely working its way into the zeitgeist, he was happy to report. Back in 2009, he said, when he gave his first talk to the lunar research community, “I knew nobody and nobody ...

How do you fancy winning a cool quarter-of-a-million dollars? That's the prize on offer for the astronomical alchemist who can create breathable oxygen from moondust. The competition, unveiled ...

That moondust isn’t coming back to Earth, nor is it settling into lunar orbit. Instead, it’s streaming toward a Lagrange point, a place in space where two objects’ respective gravitational ...

Both the U.S. and China have set their sights on the Moon, aiming to break ground on permanent lunar bases within the next ...

Since the moon dust brought by Apollo astronauts wasn't sufficient, the researchers created 'amended moondust' to grow the ...

The moondust, which is usually completely inhospitable to crops, was made fertile with the addition of Earth soil fungi and worm manure, also known as vermicompost.

Firing dust from the moon into space to create a sun shield could be a "feasible" way to mitigate global warming on Earth, a team of scientists has found. In a study published in the journal PLOS ...

MOONDUST will keep astronauts alive on the lunar surface: European space bosses reveal 'heatsink' to warm bases Moondust could be used to absorb energy from the sun and store it in the soil ...

Renewed efforts to build solar cells from moondust Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has been awarded $35 million in funding from NASA to improve the company’s commercial solution that produces silicon ...

Moondust brought back to Earth by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 is being studied to see if it can be turned into water, as well as fuel and bricks. Experts from the Open University in Milton Keynes ...

It's moondust. One by one, Abbas is measuring properties of individual dust grains returned by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 and the Russian Luna-24 sample-return spacecraft that landed on the Moon ...