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Texas A&M researchers are working on turning moon dust, or regolith, into soil that astronauts can use to grow crops. Jess ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil ... This discovery brings us one step closer to sustainable food production in space, but there’s still work to ...

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 ...

Lunar travel could be revolutionised by solar panels made from dust which covers the moon’s surface, scientists say. German researchers melted a synthetic version of the moon’s loose surface ...

Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that can be compacted down to form bricks to ...

Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, withstand radiation damage, and mitigate the need for transporting heavy ...

A new approach has now shown how to make solar cells out of moon dust. Later this decade, the US space agency’s Artemis III mission plans to return astronauts to the moon for the first time in more ...

In a study publishing April 3 in the Cell Press journal Device, researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, withstand ...

“I’m studying how a crop that thrives on Earth might survive in the dust of the moon. But it ... NASA’s goals for space food systems. Adding to her grant selection, she was selected to do an ...

The "Fantastic Ferocious Moon Planters ... grow sustainable food sources during exploration. The stimulant they used was lunar regolith, a region of loose broken rock and dust on the moon.

The food grown on the moon could be even healthier. Researchers from Florida University in 2022 announced that the stress of growing plants in alien soil boosts levels of protective compounds ...