Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

Often considered barren, the moon now reveals secrets that can alter future space exploration and human habitation. Chinese scientists have developed a revolutionary process to extract water using ...

The process under investigation here was molten regolith electrolysis, which involves using electricity to split lunar minerals containing oxygen, in order to extract the oxygen directly.

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral composition matching l ...

"We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the smoking gun was when we found out that it was rich in silicate minerals — not the kind that are seen on asteroids but ...

but the smoking gun was when we found out that it was rich in silicate minerals – not the kind that are seen on asteroids but those that have been found in lunar rock samples,” Kareta said in ...