This means that future explorers would need to build habitats from scratch. As transporting materials from Earth will require ...

Researchers at IISc have developed an innovative bacteria-based technique to repair cracks in bricks made from lunar soil ...

However, this time (if all goes well), our visit to the lunar surface won’t be a one-off mission. Instead, it will serve as a major step toward permanent habitation of Earth’s only natural ...

Future long-term exploration (or habitation) of the moon will likely depend on the availability of ice to provide water, with the likelihood of ice formation in a lunar area directly affected by ...

Future long-term exploration (or habitation) of the Moon will likely depend on the availability of ice to provide water, with the likelihood of ice formation in a lunar area directly affected by ...

Ice may lie an inch or so below the Moon’s surface in many more regions than previously thought — which has major implications for longer-term lunar exploration or even habitation. The measurements ...

Ice may be present just below the lunar surface in more parts of the ... water is likely to be central to our exploration or even habitation of the Moon. But it has been unclear exactly how ...

Chandrayaan-3’s ChaSTE provided crucial temperature data from the Moon’s high-latitude regions, enhancing the understanding ...

IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using lunar and Martian soil, bacteria and urea.