Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff." Feel it—it's soft like snow, yet strangely ...

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In the public imagination, the American astronauts who landed on the moon five decades ago were square-jawed superhumans, not the types to worry about something as banal as housekeeping. But they did, ...

Could we start growing plants in space? Using fungus and worms, we might be able to grow legumes and other plants from toxic lunar soil. At the heart of humanity’s grand odyssey into the cosmos lies a ...

Moondust is dry, desiccated stuff, and may seem like a dull topic to write about. Indeed, you could search a ton of moondust without finding a single molecule of water, so it could make for a pretty ...

Astronaut Charles Duke at the Descartes landing site, Apollo 16 mission, April 1972. Charles Duke collecting lunar samples on the surface of the Moon, with the Lunar Roving Vehicle, on the rim of Plum ...

If you thought the original versions of these highly pigmented shadows were incredible, then you likely went crazy when they became available in the form of a palette, too. You may even have those ...