No matter how many bags of cement are needed to build rocket landing pads, space-strength buildings, and stable housing on the moon, that number is simply too grand to haul up from Earth. “If we’re ...

A crushed geopolymer cube made from simulated lunar topsoil, inset shows magnification of lunar topsoil particles which have been activated and reacted to form the geopolymer binder. Sustained space ...

As countries continue cementing plans for their lunar bases, one International Space Station astronaut is busy quite literally mixing the stuff. In a press release, NASA said that its astronaut and ...

PARK CITY, Utah — A Utah company has developed "lunar concrete" with the aim of building durable structures on the Moon, with the aim of finalizing a prototype by the end of 2022. Uplift Aerospace, ...

Aled Roberts was in his lab, coaxing proteins together to develop a synthetic spider silk, when he stumbled onto an unanticipated breakthrough. To test his own silk, he’d created what scientists call ...

To build on the moon, you can’t haul cement to space. You need to create it there, so engineers are exploring making geopolymer cement out of clay-like soils found in outer space. Some clays found on ...

Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn’t currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads. So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to ...