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Japan plans giant 11,000-km solar ring around the Moon to send limitless energy to Earth; how futuristic project would workJapan's Shimizu Corporation proposes a colossal "Lunar Solar Ring" encircling the Moon to beam clean energy to Earth. This ambitious concep...- 7 Ways We’ll Turn Moon Dust Into Homes, Fuel and OxygenLunar regolith, once seen as mere dust, is now a vital resource for future moon missions. Scientists are developing technologies to transfo...
- China’s new space tech could help Astronauts survive on the moon without resupply missionsResearchers in China have discovered a new way to make the Moon more livable. The team extracts water from lunar soil. They use it to conve...
- Intuitive machines' second moon landing: How the Nova-C Athena mission is advancing lunar exploration and NASA’s artemis goalsIntuitive Machines is making its second attempt to land on the Moon with the Nova-C lander, Athena. Scheduled for March 6, 2025, this missi...
- Athena lunar lander set for historic landing near moon’s south poleThe robotic lander Athena, developed by intuitive Machines, is set to touch down on the moon near its south pole. If successful, it will be...
- US firm Firefly’s Blue Ghost lands on uncharted lunar terrain—What’s at stake?Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander is touched down on the Moon’s Mare Crisium. This is the second private company to achieve this m...
- Private US spaceship hours from Moon landing attemptFirefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is scheduled for a lunar landing attempt near Mons Latreille, marking only the second private luna...
- China may use Moon's soil to make bricks for lunar baseChina is experimenting with lunar soil bricks to build a permanent base on the Moon by 2035. Prototype bricks, stronger than standard ones,...
- China makes historic landing on far side of the moonChina landed the Chang'e-6 craft on the far side of the moon to retrieve rocks and soil, elevating its space power status in a global rush ...
- ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: OfficialThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on two lunar exploration missions following the successful soft-landing of Chandra...
- Road on Moon? Scientists find new tech for construction on lunar surfaceScientists have discovered that lunar dust, consisting of dark gray volcanic rock, could be used to construct roads and landing pads on the...
- Chandrayaan-3's lunar innings end as Vikram and Pragyan stay stumpedIndia's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has suffered a setback as the lander and rover have not reawakened after their soft landing on the Mo...
- Chandrayaan 3: Post touchdown, Rover to embark on 14-day activities on lunar surfaceAccording to ISRO, Lander and the Rover have five scientific payloads which have been placed inside the Lander Module (LM). Rover's Alpha P...
- ISRO plans proper touchdown of 'Vikram' lander even if its sensors and engines fail: S SomanathIndia's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has been designed to ensure its lander, Vikram, can make a safe landing even if all sensors and two o...
- Chandrayaan-3: RAMBHA, ILSA to help ISRO understand moon betterThe Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar expedition, launched on February 22 is carrying six payloads that would help ISRO understand the lun...
- China's Chang'e 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon's surfaceThe study published on Saturday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances revealed that the lunar soil at the landing site contains les...
- The Moon's top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 yearsAlthough the Moon does have an atmosphere, it's very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon and argon. It's not the sort of gaseous mix...
- Big Discovery: Scientists find presence of water on sunlit surface of MoonData from the current study revealed that the Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from the Earth, has water in concentration...
- A startup team from Bengaluru preparing for an unmanned lunar missionStartup TeamIndus, the most ambitious project of Axiom Research Labs, is the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE.
- New technique to produce 'green' steelMIT researchers have found a new method through which steel making can be made completely 'green' and carbon-free.
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