The battle against damage to equipment from sand and dust has gained ground with the unveiling of the first device that simulates exposure to both in a single chamber. Aptly named Desert Wind, the ...

The GoMars project is attempting something planetary scientists have wanted for decades: a continuous, high fidelity simulation of a full Martian year that captures the Red Planet’s shifting ...

After Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the Moon, he said, “It’s almost like a powder”, as he described the lunar regolith, and astronauts on future Apollo missions found working on the lunar ...

Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new research. Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new research by scientists at the ...

Spatial distribution of the dust source function for the dust emission scheme in the model. The major dust source regions are marked on the map. Credit: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ...

In context: Supermassive black holes are among the most extreme phenomena that humans have discovered in outer space. They possess a mass hundreds of thousands, or even millions to billions of times ...

Scientists have developed a new computer model that simulates how moon dust behaves in lunar gravity. They hope it will help future robotic moon explorers to do their job more safely. When you ...

Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...