First, authors briefly concluded the natural resources of the Moon. The main natural resources of the Moon include mineral resources, water/ice resources, volatiles, and solar energy. Minerals of the ...

NASA and other space agencies are intent on sending astronauts back to the moon, and this time, to stay! A vital part of ...

Usually when an alchemist shows up promising to turn rocks into gold, you should run the other way. Sure, rocket fuel isn’t gold, but on the moon it’s worth more than its weight in the yellow stuff.

What steps can be taken to enhance in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future astronauts on Mars? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to ...

As lunar missions ramp up with the goal of establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon, scientists are facing an age-old question: how will astronauts breathe on a celestial body with no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface.

An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. It’s a complementary approach to NASA’s Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource ...

Technicians in the clean room are carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance ...

Tucked in the belly of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is a golden box that, if all goes well, will turn some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere into sweet, sweet oxygen. The ...