ISRU
NASA Invests in a Plan to Build Landing Pads and Other Structures on the Moon out of Regolith
Materials are a crucial yet underappreciated component of any space exploration program. Without novel materials and ways to make them,…
Figuring Out How To Breathe the Moon’s Regolith
Oxygen ranks right up there as one of the most important resources for use in space exploration. Not only is…
The Moon has Resources, but Not Enough to Go Around
A new study led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains how the Moon may not have enough resources to…
What Martian Settlers Need to Know About Soil Can Teach us How to Grow Better on Earth
The Soil Health in Space experiment is now being conducted on the ISS, which could lead to sustainable farming on…
NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources…
Practical Ideas for Farming on the Moon and Mars
Recent research supported by NASA shows how algae-growing greenhouses could lead to colonies on the Moon and Mars that are…
Mapping Out the Water on the Moon
Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future…
This is What Moondust Looks Like When You Remove All the Oxygen. A Pile of Metal
The Moon has abundant oxygen and minerals, things that are indispensable to any space-faring civilization. The problem is they're locked…
Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA
This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining…
Lunar Outpost Shows off their New Rover that will Crawl the Moon, Searching for Resources
Space technology company Lunar Outpost has unveiled their new Lunar Prospector rover that will explore the surface of the Moon…