NASA is putting out a call to companies, tasking them with bagging lunar samples in exchange for funds. If a private company can prove that it has gathered Moon rocks on the lunar surface, NASA ...

NASA has launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the U.S. space agency seeks to spur private extraction ...

NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space ...

NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space ...

WASHINGTON – NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the US space agency… ...

The space agency is taking proposals from companies on how they will collect rock from the Moon, using robotic surface rovers. NASA then plans to purchase the samples in amounts of 50 to 500 grams ...

The moon’s surface is relatively preserved, while Earth’s surface is continually recycled. Earth’s tectonic plates subduct older crust down into the mantle and raise new crust to the surface, as well ...

Researchers have had their first-ever look at samples brought back from the Moon’s far side — and the rocks detail a history of volcanic activity that spans billions of years.

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...