But inside, it's laced with an exquisite and extremely valuable material: moon dust ... Traces of dust still remain in the outer decontamination bag, which includes a label reading "LUNAR SAMPLE ...

Scientists will study the images for a mysterious phenomenon known as "horizon glow," thought to be created when solar influences cause moon dust to levitate. The theory was established by an ...

The UD experiment is part of the Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) payload set to determine how moon dust particles stick to different materials exposed to the moon’s environment. These ...

Now, three astrophysicists have proposed a plan to create a moon dust shield by mining and shooting bits of moon dust into space. The plan might sound a bit out of this world — sorry for that ...

Whether out-of-the-box thinking or a sign of desperation, scientists on Wednesday proposed the regular transport of moon dust to a gravity point between Earth and Sun to temper the ravages of ...