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Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study.
A 3D printing company working with NASA is hoping to build infrastructure on the moon. Closer to home, Icon is 3D printing the first large community of 3D-printed houses.
Volcanic rock in the sample collected by Chang'e-6, the first mission that brought back soil from the far side of the Moon, is about 2.8 billion years old, suggesting the landing site was ...
ICON and NASA plan to realize a 3D-printed habitat on the Moon that would be constructed using lunar materials. (Courtesy ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) This isn’t the first time the U.S. agency ...
Space The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was. A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has revealed that ...
Lunar Graphene Chinese scientists have made an unusual discovery while analyzing the sample Chang'e-5 collected from the Moon's surface in December 2020. They found naturally occurring "few-layer ...
The Chang’e-6 lunar module landed on Tuesday with up to 2 kilograms of moon dust and rocks inside of it. It’s the latest space success for a country that is increasingly catching the eye of ...
Days after a fire raged at its South Austin headquarters, Icon has announced a $57 million NASA contract to "support planned exploration of the moon and beyond," according to a Nov. 29 announcement.
Put 4.46 billion candles on the moon’s birthday cake, because scientists just revealed that it's much older than previous estimates.
Moon Sample Talks Show Space Engagement by Rivals US and China By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA and Chinese officials are engaged in talks to let American scientists analyze rocks ...
The lunar soil sample analyzed for this study was collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, which made a soft landing on the moon’s Earth-facing northwest corner and carried regolith samples ...