Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours simulated lunar dust into a bed tray for testing hardware ...

Moon dust is not a poetic flourish, it is a mission risk that can grind through metal, clog joints, and threaten astronaut lungs. As NASA prepares to send crews back to the lunar surface for longer ...

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In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back ...

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in ...

One day, we might see glowing cities of glass scattered across the Moon's surface, shining softly under Earth's light. NASA is teaming up with Skyeports, a California-based company, to explore how ...

A gray powder that looks like ash can become something closer to stone when hit with the right beam of light. Engineers have shown that simulated lunar soil can be melted and layered into solid shapes ...

Blue Origin showed off a device that turns moon dust into energy at Amazon's re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas that was built with startup Istari Digital and created by AI. Istari CEO Will Roper ...

Saharan dust and atmospheric filtering combined to give the moon a dramatic red hue.

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...