The amount of pore space in most unweathered granite is too small to support a plant-based ecosystem. But porosity grows as intact rock interacts with surface waters beneath the soil. You have ...

In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group outlines all the factors and processes that would be involved in converting regolith to fuel and moving it to ...

RAC, which stands for Regolith Adherence Characterization, will be in operation for one lunar day (or 14 Earth days) to determine how lunar regolith, or lunar dust, adheres to a range of materials ...

“We’ve had to improve how the machine works to handle the jagged, abrasive texture of the regolith,” said White to BBC. The company’s tests in a vacuum chamber simulated lunar pressures ...