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A visitor looks at a lunar soil sample displayed at a Space Day of China science exhibition in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, April 24, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] China has taken a concrete step toward ...

The first batch of experimental "lunar soil bricks," developed for future construction on the lunar surface, has successfully returned to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-21 spaceship after spending a full ...

China has taken a concrete step toward realizing its ambition of building a permanent outpost on the moon by successfully exposing a batch of experimental "lunar bricks" to the harsh conditions in ...

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic ...

WUHAN, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- China has inched closer toward its ambitious goal of building infrastructure on the moon, as the first set of experimental "lunar soil bricks" returned to Earth after a year ...

Beijing, which has poured huge resources into its space programme to catch up with the United States and Russia, is aiming to put humans on the Moon by 2030 ...

We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria ...

(Nanowerk News) Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to ...