Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

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A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong Institute of Geological Sciences, all in China, has found evidence in soil samples ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has obtained the first measurements of the composition of the soil near the Moon’s south pole 1. The minerals found offer further evidence that the lunar surface was ...

Lunar soil could help sustain a human colony on the Moon, a new study suggests. Scientists have developed a technology that they say may help people survive on Earth's only natural satellite. Chinese ...

Moon Dust: Unlike Earth and other major celestial bodies in the solar system, the Moon doesn't have a significant atmosphere or magnetic field. However, Earth's satellite has a very thin layer of dust ...

Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the Moon. In a study publishing July 16 in the Cell Press journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it ...

ABB has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the concept for an Autonomous Lunar Exploration Infrared Spectrometer (ALExIS) for Canada's Lunar Utility Rover. Canada is ...