Russia is no longer content with short lunar flybys or one-off landers. Its space agency now wants to anchor a permanent foothold on the Moon by building a nuclear power plant capable of riding out ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and ...

'Moonglass’ made from the lunar surface might be particularly radiation-resistant. By Tom Hawking Published Apr 4, 2025 10:38 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity's push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of ...

What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers created solar cells made out of simulated moon dust. The cells convert ...

Vision of future solar cell fabrication on the Moon, utilizing raw regolith. Shown are robots that source raw regolith and bring it to a production facility, which fabricates perovskite-based moon ...