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 ...

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 ...

On Mars, humans will have to use materials that are already there, NASA says. So the space agency wants to practice on the moon to figure out the details.

China landed Chang'e-5 on the moon's surface in December 2020 and collected basaltic volcanic rocks that were returned to Earth. These were the first samples recovered from the moon since the ...