Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

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Last month, an RIC proposed the development of a multiple robotic system to explore lunar lava tubes. Charlie and Coyote ... and Baltic Seas. For space applications, the "Space" team designs ...

Beneath the surface of the Moon lie vast underground caverns, some of which are miles long and wider than football fields, and they may make for excellent settlement sites. Strict Rules U.S ...

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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientists sent NASA’s largest spacecraft ever launched to another planet not to detect life itself, but to see if the moon has conditions ...

But do expect this month’s Indian Space Progress edition early next week before I take a break for real. I shall then rest, refresh, reflect, and re-energize, and I hope you do too. Alright, let’s ...

WASHINGTON: Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to ...

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks ... extremely low temperatures of space, Nimmo said.

In some places where the lava did not reach the surface, the zircon grains remained cool so that their internal clock was not affected. “The lunar rock samples tell us the Moon’s entire ...

Image: The Blue Ghost lunar lander. Pic: Firefly Aerospace Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Firefly Aerospace, said the space agency had paid a fixed price of $101m (£80m) for the mission ...