A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum computers and nuclear fusion reactors. And according to one of its scientific ...

Based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, or ARES, ...

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...

For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side. By Katrina Miller Katrina ...

Recent findings from samples collected by China's Chang ... low-titanium basalts previously collected by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon's near side. This connection helps to build a more ...

A researcher with the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, prepares the lunar samples ... while samples collected from the Apollo missions suggested that a major global ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission brought back the first-ever samples from the moon’s far side, offering unprecedented insights into lunar history. Analysis of basalt fragments suggests that the ...