Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of the most explored places in the solar system ... Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos.

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Future lunar bases could run on solar panels forged from molten moon dust, turning the Moon ... Today, solar panels power satellites, space stations, and Mars and lunar rovers.

According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed ... this impact released a lot of energy — more than enough to turn the moon into a ...

Making solar ... and even Mars colonies - more feasible. “If you cut the weight by 99%, you don’t need ultra-efficient 30% solar cells, you just make more of them on the Moon," added Lang.

NASA's plan to establish a permanent human presence on the moon will require making better use of lunar resources. A new approach has now shown how to make solar cells out of moon dust. Later this ...