moon, Tag

Space botanists are working on strategies to grow crops on the lunar surface, as NASA makes strides toward sending astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program...

If you’ve ever dreamed of moving to the moon and planting a garden, you just might be in luck. A new study has successfully grown plants in lunar soil for the first time.[...]

Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report May 5 in the journal Joule.

Guest “Ice, ice baby!” by David Middleton NASA Study Highlights Importance of Surface Shadows in Moon Water PuzzleAug 02, 2021 The shadows cast by the roughness of the Moon’s surface…

Recently, a pair of NASA studies identified the most likely locations to find pieces of mantle on the surface, providing a map for future lunar sample return missions such as those under NASA’s Artemis program...

Considering retiring on the coast one day? Better rethink your plans. A new NASA study explains that a cute-sounding phenomenon called a "moon wobble" could lead to devastating coastal floods in the next decade.[...]

It may not be very well known, but the Arctic Ocean leaks enormous amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane. These leaks have been ongoing for thousands of years but could be intensified by a future warmer ocean. The...

As part of its Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration and Development, NASA has teamed up with architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group, advanced construction developer ICON and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) to design...

From Reuters Exclusive: Trump administration drafting ‘Artemis Accords’ pact for moon mining – sources Joey Roulette WASHINGTON(Reuters) – The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for...

“What does it take to live on the moon?” That was the question put forward by Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, the founders of SAGA Space Architects and the analog astronauts behind Lunark, a prototype...

FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their...

From NASA NASA’s new class of astronauts – the first to graduate since the agency announced its Artemis program – appear on stage during their graduation ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...

From NASA Earth’s Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s LRO and MESSENGER spacecraft...

From Wired Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are microscopic animals that can survive for years without food or water. And now they’re on the moon! It was just before midnight on April 11 and everyone at the Israel...

Live video broadcast by TV networks in 1969 was not full resolution – it was a copy done by a camera pointed at a NASA TV monitor. This video is the original at full resolution. Back on July 20th, 1969, blurry, grainy...