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 ...

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; ...

The chickpeas grown in 75 percent moondust soil mix. Varying degrees of chlorophyll can be seen in the study at five weeks. Jessica Atkin. The moondust, which is usually completely inhospitable to ...

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. Pictured, lab-made moon dust, ...

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 ...

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 ...

These streams of moondust could shade Earth for up to a week, the authors found. Bromley said this moonjet approach was more "feasible" than the others that were considered.

1The entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to build permanent bases on the moon, or perhaps even Mars or beyond, then future astronauts will have to spend many ...